State of the world’s birds 2022
This fifth edition of BirdLife’s flagship State of the World’s Birds report summarises what birds, as barometers for planetary health, can tell us about the state of nature, the pressures upon it, and
Invasive Alien Species
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Drivers of and pressures arising from selected key water management challenges: a European overview
This report aims to give a European overview of the main drivers and pressures that are at the core of key water management challenges and which put European water bodies most at risk of not achieving
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Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
Biodiversity is declining faster than at any other period in human history. Direct drivers of the decline include changes in land and sea use, over-exploitation of organisms, climate change, pollution
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Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050
<p>Biological invasions have steadily increased over recent centuries. However, we still lack a clear expectation about future trends in alien species numbers. In particular, we do not know whether alien
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The potential risk of Schistosoma mansoni transmission by the invasive freshwater snail Biomphalaria straminea in South China
<p>Schistosomes infect more than 200 million people worldwide, and globally, over 700 million people are at risk of infection. The snail Biomphalaria straminea, as one of the intermediate hosts of Schistosoma
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding breeding of exotic cat fish, Pune, Maharashtra, 13/08/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sandip Ankush Jadhav & Others Vs Fisheries Department, State of Maharashtra & Others dated 13/08/2019 regarding breeding of exotic cat fish,
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Invasive foreign plant chokes Nigeria's rivers and dams
The water hyacinth is a foreign weed introduced in the early 1990s to Nigeria. Since then it has spread rapidly to two-thirds of the country's rivers. It has caused immense damage to livelihoods of
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Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
<p>Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers.<a
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Ring-necked parakeet declared eradicated from Seychelles after 8 years of work
In a boost for the island nation's black parrot population, the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) has confirmed the eradication of the ring-necked parakeet after the invasive species has not been sighted
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Elephant grass threat to Tanzania's Ngorongoro park
Authorities in Ngorongoro Conservation Area are fighting the spread of an invasive elephant grass now spreading to occupy the highlands of the wildlife-rich park. The plant had infested about 40 per