Biodiversity loss is proceeding at an unprecedented pace, jeopardizing the stability of natural ecosystems, increasing vulnerability to climate change, limiting options for climate adaptation and threatening food security.
The world’s poorest countries are home to the greatest array of biodiversity and so bear the brunt of this trend. Invasive species are major drivers of biodiversity loss, alongside habitat loss, climate change and pollution - which includes excessive use of synthetic pesticides.
Action in all of these areas, coupled with the sustainable use of natural resources, is vital to prevent further biodiversity loss.
bwi works to support sustainable livelihoods and reduce poverty, and develop more equitable models of natural resource consumption and governance. An important dimension of our work are efforts to reduce human ecological footprint by promoting sustainable production and consumption patterns.
We also contribute to efforts to catalogue and conserve global biodiversity, and to finding ways of using biodiversity to benefit people and the environment.
Our work seeks to ensure agricultural systems are embedded in healthy, climate-resilient and biodiverse landscapes, with clean water and air, healthy soils, and functional ecosystem services.
Our action
To deliver change, we:
- 1. Support regional, national and subnational bodies to develop and implement landscape-scale invasive species management strategies that reduce negative effects on biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery, while sustaining livelihoods
- 2. Provide sustainable nature-based solutions to priority invasive and native pests, including tackling new invasive species by developing, gaining approval for, and releasing new biocontrol agents
- 3. Work with our Member Countries to support local biodiversity assessments, data repositories and collections
Our global efforts on forests, water, oceans, wildlife, climate change & energy, and food work across a diversity of issues to build a sustainable balance between people and nature.