News and Media July 2025

Since 1900, the Philippines has lost nearly two-thirds of its forests, shrinking its forest cover from 21 million hectares to just seven million in the 2010s. Despite existing illegal logging bans, the Philippines loses an estimated 52,000 trees daily due to deforestation, land conversion, and agric...Read more

How can we close the biodiversity finance gap—and turn global goals into national action? The answer starts with a plan. Registration is NOW OPEN for our new, free online course : Biodiversity Finance: Designing and Implementing Finance Plans for Nature ! This free, practical course is designed to e...Read more

Pacific Harbour, Fiji, 9 July 2025. – Government representatives from 15 Pacific Island Countries and Territories have convened this week at The Pearl Resort in Pacific Harbour to officially launch the GEF-8 funded Pacific Biodiversity Finance (BIOFIN) Umbrella Programme, a landmark initiative to st...Read more

4 July 2025, Buenos Aires, Argentina - The launch was attended by national and subnational authorities, private and development banks, civil society representatives, international cooperation agencies, and academics. As part of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the United Nations Devel...Read more

South Africa is updating its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and its Target 15, which calls for greater transparency on how companies and financial institutions impact nature. The Department of Forestry, Fisher...Read more