Issue Oct 23-29 2024: On October 21, negotiations began at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit in the city of Cali, Colombia, focusing on how to distribute the benefits from genetic resources.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: Although Han de Groot, CEO of Wetlands International, recognizes the important advance that the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework represented in the restoration and conservation of wetlands, he is still skeptical of the actions that countries will take to conserve the most threatened ecosystem of the planet.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Despite several challenges, Peru has set 29 national goals to present in Cali, Colombia, at the 16th Conference of the Parties on Biodiversity (COP16), which began on October 21.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Costa Rica will join forces with other countries in the region to secure funding for reversing decades of environmental destruction threatening global species and ecosystems.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: As the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Conference of the Parties (COP16) approaches, it marks the first major gathering since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15 in 2022.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Residents of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Archipelago have raised alarms about the possible poisoning of dogs in both urban areas and near protected zones.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Peru has become Latin America’s leading shark fin exporter and one of the top ten globally, though almost three quarters of these exports originate illegally from Ecuador, where targeted shark fishing is prohibited.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: In this document signed on September 12 in Quibdo, Chocó, the Asociacíon Colombiana de Facultades de Ciencias (ACOFACIEN) committed to the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the Biodiversity Action Plan.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Droughts in the Amazon have been increasing in number and intensity, with four droughts in the last century compared to four in the past 25 years.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: The forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay continue to shrink due to the expansion of livestock farming, with some of this cattle being used in collagen production for dietary supplements and cosmetics.