Marpol Annex 4 Explained: How to Prevent Pollution from Sewage at Sea
This Marine Insight article breaksdown the issue of sewage pollution at sea and how ship crews can contribute to reducation of pollution in the ocean.
Tourism and Biodiversity: Achieving Common Goals Towards Sustainability
This UNWTO report looks at the relationship between tourism and biodiversity, and assesses the way that tourism can contribute to the protection of biodiversity and enhance its role as a main resource for tourism destinations.
Practical Guide for the Development of Biodiversity Based Tourism Products
This UNWTO guide offers a collection of tools and methodologies paired with step-by-step systems that show local product developers and tour operators how to develop sustainable biodiversity-based tourism products intended for immediate implementation.
Protecting Wildlife by Buying Informed: A Corporate Toolkit
This US Wildlife Trafficking Alliance toolkit includes public service announcements, an educational infographic, billboard advertisements, social media graphics, and consumer-targeted pamphlets for corporate involvement in wildlife conservation.
A Good Practice Guide: Tourism for Nature and Development
This CBD, UNEP, and UNWTO report provides stakeholders with the tools to make the tourism sector more biodiversity friendly and more socially just. It addresses the links between tourism development, biological diversity conservation, and development / poverty reduction.
Conservation and Development in Mozambique: Lessons from the Transfrontier Conservation Areas Program and New Perspectives for the MozBio Program
This World Bank report presents the main achievements and lessons learned during the 15 years of implementation of the Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) Program in Mozambique and how they led to the 2015 launch of the new MozBio Program. The main themes of this project include economic growth and rural development, landscape approach, innovative partnerships, […]
The Future of Food from the Sea
This WRI report confirms the importance of ocean food production systems in global future food and nutritional security. This report encourages responsive actions from governments, financial institutions, and businesses through smarter management of wild fisheries and the sustainable development of marine aquaculture (mariculture) while restoring the health of ocean ecosystems.
Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance
This WRI report provides an overview of the issues of biodiversity loss, addresses gaps and challenges, and offers opportunities for action for a variety of stakeholders.
Green Infrastructure Wizard
This EPA interactive web application connects communities to EPA Green Infrastructure tools & resources and provides access to tools and resources that can support and promote water management and community planning decisions.
Text of the Convention
This CBD document shows the origins of the Convention on Biological Diversity with 3 main objectives of: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.