+Wildlife | October 29, 2010

Wildlife: Nations Agree on a Historic Deal for Biodiversity in Nagoya

By Bryan Walsh

Bucking the trend of global environmental summits over-promising and under-delivering, representatives from nearly 190 nations came together in Nagoya at the end of the two week-long Convention on Biological Diversity and signed an important deal that aims to greatly expand the portions of the planet that are under protection and fairly divide up the world’s [...]

+Wildlife | October 19, 2010

Wildlife: How Do We Divide Up the World’s Biological Resources?

By Bryan Walsh

As we wrote yesterday, the meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya has a long agenda. That’s what happens when you convene a global meeting to save wildlife on the planet Earth. But beyond the dire warnings about disappearing animals and emptying seas—and the grand, if fuzzy promises governments will make—there’s some [...]