The World Heritage Committee’s first in-person meeting since 2019 is prime opportunity for it to strengthen its commitments to protect some of the most precious environments on the planet
Today (18 April) is World Heritage Day, a chance to celebrate and promote awareness of global cultural and natural heritage and to encourage the preservation and protection of monuments and sites.
After nearly two decades of negotiations, the member states of the United Nations last week in New York agreed an historic treaty to protect the high seas
As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth remembering the pivotal role played by human-driven deforestation in emerging diseases
Today is International Snow Leopard Day, a celebration of the beautiful and elusive big cat known as the ‘ghost of the mountain’. It is also a chance to renew focus on the price that illegal wildlife trade is exacting from this magnificent creature. The Snow Leopard Trust estimates there are somewhere between 3,290 and 6,390 […]
Climate change is not a standalone issue but a crisis impacting on and threatening every aspect of life on Earth