Communities, Nature, and their role in supporting biodiversity. Images taken on a field visit to the Ruhango district. Around the world, biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. This isn’t just a crisis for ecosystems—it’s a crisis for people. Biodiversity supports food security, cultural identity, economic livelihoods, and climate resilience. Yet, the response to this crisis is too often shaped by top-down policies that overlook local communities lived experiences and values. The EU-funded PLANET4B project aims to explore how to [...]

Big agriculture and globalization have trimmed down the incredible variety of cultivated plants to a bare minimum. But all is not lost! PLANET4B’s Agrobiodiversity management case study explores how we might still preserve the variety of disappearing species and traditional varieties. […]

By Samantha Green and Geraldine Brown A global bioblitz opportunity for engaging in nature recording and thinking about our local nature and biodiversity ‘City Nature Challenge’ is a global four-day nature-recording extravaganza in April where citizens worldwide compete to record nature and wildlife sightings in their area, usually recording species by using the iNaturalist app. Recordings can be of any wild plant, animal, fungi, slime mould or evidence of life found in the city. Last year, worldwide, nearly 2.5 million [...]