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Wildlife Policy Review Consultations

Introduction The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry (MECTHI), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is ...

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Third Meeting of the Open Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

The Third meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is ongoing virtually, from 23 August to 3 September 2021. This process is expected to lead to the adopt...

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Call for a Consultant to Review and draft the National Policy for Wildlife: Zimbabwe

The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry (MECTHI), in partnership with the UNDP, is implementing a 6-year GEF funded project entitled ...

Increase the Sharing of Benefits from Genetic Resources, Digital Sequence Information and...

Take effective legal, policy, administrative, and capacity-building measures at all levels, as appropriate, to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits that arise from the utilization of genetic resources and from digital sequence...

Enhance Green Spaces and Urban Planning for Human Well-Being and Biodiversity

Restore, manage and significantly increase the area, quality, and connectivity of, access to, and benefits from green and blue spaces to enhance human wellbeing in urban and densely populated areas sustainably, by mainstreaming the conservation and...

Restore, Maintain and Enhance Nature’s Contributions to People

Restore, maintain, and enhance nature’s contributions to people, including ecosystem functions and services, as well as protection from natural hazards and disasters, including through ecosystem-based approaches, for the benefit of all people and...

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How supporting rangers and capacitating them to screen for disease, poisoning and poaching assisted in diagnosing a novel disease in African elephant

Zimbabwe and its neighboring countries have the largest African Savanna elephant population in the world.  Some areas have a plethora of animals and these high densities are concern for diseases, pois...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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