This is Beirut, 08/05 15:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Wolf Protected Status Downgrade Biodiversity
EU lawmakers on Thursday gave the green light to downgrading wolf protections in the bloc, which will allow hunting to resume under strict criteria. Members of the Bern Convention, tasked with the protection of wildlife in Europe as well as some African countries, agreed in December to lower the wolf's status from "strictly protected" to ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-02 19:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
COP16 united nations biodiversity colombia
The world's biggest nature conservation conference closed in Colombia on Saturday with no agreement on a roadmap to ramp up funding for species protection. With other successes under its belt, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was suspended by its president Susana Muhamad as ...
Lyne Sammouri, 2023-12-16 17:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
biodiversity Eco Movement environment
At a time when biodiversity and the environment are considered “abstract” or “rich people's problems” by most, the Lebanon Eco Movement thought otherwise in their “Biodiversity National Dialogue" event, organized alongside the Institut Français on Friday, December 15. Lebanon’s biodiversity has been heavily affected following the ...