News and Media May 2025

San José, Costa Rica – 27 May 2025 The “Raíces” program, a national initiative supporting Indigenous-led sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, has launched its fourth call for applications — now expanding for the first time to the Caribbean territories of Nairi Awari and Bajo Chirripó. Developed to emp...Read more

New €11.5 million German contribution to UNDP-BIOFIN will support Ukraine’s inaugural Biodiversity Finance Plan and scale up global action Santiago, Chile, 15 May 2025 - The Sixth Global Conference on Biodiversity Finance – with more than 130 countries represented - concluded with strong calls for u...Read more

Buenos Aires and Geneva, 22 May 2025 – In a global first, a new insurance product has been launched to protect one of Latin America’s most iconic and endangered species: the jaguar. Developed through a partnership between the Government of the Province of Misiones, the United Nations Development Pro...Read more

Pretoria, South Africa — Two groundbreaking tools designed to reshape biodiversity management in South Africa were officially launched this week at the National Biodiversity Offset Conference in Gauteng. The event, held from 22–23 May to mark the 2025 International Day for Biological Diversity, brou...Read more

WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA – On the 2025 International Day for Biological Diversity, Namibia embraced the global call for “Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development” by convening a dynamic high-level dialogue that brought together policymakers, academics, youth leaders, and biodiversity finance experts...Read more