Biodiversity
2022 - 10 - 3Written Statement: Biodiversity Deep Dive (3 October 2022) | GOV ... (GOV.WALES)
30x30 refers to protecting and effectively managing at least 30% of our land freshwater and sea for nature by 2030. It is one of a number of targets which form ...
The imperative to act is now and Wales needs to deliver a decade of action if we are to become nature positive. I fully recognise we need to take ambitious and integrated action if we are to put nature on the path to recovery. I look forward to continuing my work with the core group as we drive forward together as ‘Team Wales’ to become nature positive. To mitigate these risks, we will identify what interventions may be needed, and develop principles for responsible investment to ensure that any additional funding supports both our ambitions for nature recovery and the wider Well Being goals. We will ensure we have the right skills and expertise for the green jobs needed for nature recovery, both now and into the future. In the longer term we will ensure that the designation of a new National Park in northeast Wales affords significant opportunities for climate change mitigation and nature recovery, and that these are embedded as a key delivery priority for the new park. To achieve this, we will appraise our data needs, building on existing data sets and good practice and identifying future needs. We will strengthen the connection between local communities and nature, helping people understand the actions they can take that will make a difference. We will enable more effective screening of planning applications to better understand the potential impacts from proposals. To support collaborative partnership approaches at the local level, we will be investing in our Local Nature Partnerships. Over the summer, I have been working with a group of key experts and practitioners to undertake a Biodiversity Deep Dive to develop a set of collective actions we can take in Wales to support natures recovery. Alongside Nature Recovery Exemplar Areas, we will also explore the use of a new concept: Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECM).
Governing nature – halting biodiversity loss (SPICe Spotlight)
What is COP15? COP15 is the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Like COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, which brought together ...
As part of its scrutiny role, it is the Parliament’s responsibility to assess whether the Scottish Government is delivering on its biodiversity commitments – both domestic and international. However, many of the targets that have been met are those that have to do with implementing policies, adopting legislation, improving knowledge, and increasing awareness. “It is clear on reviewing the 2004 strategy that our vision for the future, analysis of the problem and priorities for action have not greatly changed in the last 15 years, nor have we developed fundamentally different or new means of addressing the problem. To give an example, for coastal ecosystems, the outcomes are proposed to be: This part looks at progress made in tackling biodiversity loss, ongoing changes to biodiversity policy globally and in Scotland, and the role of the Scottish Parliament in scrutinising this widespread challenge. For Target 15, for example, the monitoring report points to Scotland’s peatland restoration programme and activities to improve rivers over the last 25 years. Progress has been made on the remaining eleven, but was insufficient to meet the target by 2020. Scotland is responsible for the implementation of international agreements in devolved areas like biodiversity. COP15 is the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. COP15 is now due to be held in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, with China as President of the conference. [first draft of a Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework](https://www.cbd.int/article/draft-1-global-biodiversity-framework) has been published, including 21 new or revised targets. Though countries meet every other year under the convention, every ten years the parties come together to agree a new set of targets to guide action for the next decade.
Welsh Government to triple peatland restoration in nature recovery ... (Nation.Cymru)
In quick response, Welsh Government tripled its peatland restoration targets while promising further action to restore Wales' wildlife and plants. Biodiversity ...
RSPB Cymru and biodiversity deep dive panel member Sharon Thompson, said: “As we approach the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal in December, where we want global leaders to agree to ambitious targets to restore nature, this Deep Dive couldn’t have come at a more important time. We are in a Nature and Climate Emergency, and with the potential of really significant threats to nature elsewhere, making sure the recommendations of the Deep Dive are urgently turned in action in Wales is critical.” Our health, happiness and future depend on it.”
New methods of biodiversity monitoring to be created (Innovation News Network)
Knowledge of species, ecology, and conservation biology will be combined with this expertise. © iStock/alex_west. To create new methods of biodiversity ...
The project seeks to develop, evaluate, and integrate image and sound recognition-based Artificial Intelligence solutions to assist EU biodiversity monitoring and deliver high spatial resolution habitat extent maps. In addition to this, Project Officer Colombe Warin outlined the importance of MAMBO for the EU’s Green Deal. To create new methods of biodiversity monitoring, the project aims to integrate new technologies with existing research infrastructures. The MAMBO project began with a consortium meeting on 15-16 September in Aarhus, Denmark. The project will help fill the knowledge gaps that exist when monitoring certain species and habitats. To achieve this, a multi-disciplinary approach will be implemented, utilising the technical expertise of sectors such as computer science, remote sensing, social science expertise on human-technology interactions, environmental economy, and citizen science.
Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity (Atmos.earth)
I am trained in particle physics and quantum theory, not biology. My quantum training helped me transcend the illusion of mechanistic separation at the ...
It involves a shift from the monoculture of the mind to a biodiversity of the mind that allows us to see our interconnections with other beings. A century of oil has led to the neglect of the richness of biodiversity. The stated goal of the NACs are “to preserve and restore the natural assets that ultimately underpin the ability for there to be life on Earth.” Our health is one with the health of the planet. We are among the youngest siblings in the Earth’s family and—with the dawn of the Industrial Age a mere 200 years ago—have disrupted the Earth’s ability to regulate her climate. Diversity in our farms and on our plates is the answer to malnutrition, hunger, and disease. A biodiversity of the mind is needed to care for biodiversity, to regenerate it for the sustenance of all beings. The longest and most significant was the case of neem biopiracy. It is founded on the illusion of a false exceptionalism that denies the intelligence of nonhuman species: plants, animals, and microbes. This separation is one of the major drivers of extinction and biodiversity loss. The natural world is a constant striving for a diversity of expression. From seeds and plants, I learned ecology—the science of living systems and the ethics of life.
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