International news

On Saturday 24 March 8:30 p.m. local time, skylines around the world will go dark as millions celebrate WWF's Earth Hour to spark global awareness and action on nature and the environment.

Forests are essential for cities around the world. Forest ecosystems provide water and other critical services on which cities depend.

For this year's International Women's Day, I join my voice to the call to action to empower women in all settings, rural and urban, and to draw inspiration from the activists working to achieve women's rights and gender equality.

Earth Hour, WWF's landmark movement, is set to once again unite millions of people around the world to show their commitment to the planet.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into force today, 5 March 2018.

I want to welcome you to the Subregional Workshop for Arabic Speaking Countries on the Clearing-House Mechanism.

Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day. CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) has chosen the theme of "Big cats: predators under threat."

With immense sadness, we announce the death of our dear colleague Olivier de Munck. He was a supremely dedicated colleague who joined the Secretariat in 1999.

Nominations are now invited for the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018. The call for nominations remains open until 15 June 2018.

The February 2018 edition of the Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity newsletter is now available.