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Kenya has emerged as a continental leader in ecosystem restoration through its ambitious 15BillionTrees

Kenya has emerged as a continental leader in ecosystem restoration through its ambitious #15BillionTrees Initiative, one of Africa's most significant environmental restoration programmes. The initiati...

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World Rainforest Day 2026

Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & ForestryDeep within the ancient canopy of the Kakamega Rainforest,Kenya’s sole remaining extension of the vast Congo tropical ecosystem,lies an essential trut...

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Kenya Successfully Hosts the Historic 11th Our Ocean Conference, Securing Global Commitments for Ocean Conservation and the Blue Economy

Mombasa, Kenya | 18 June 2026 Kenya has successfully concluded the 11th Our Ocean Conference (OOC), held from 16–18 June 2026 in the coastal city of Mombasa, becoming the first African nation to host ...

Target 9 :Management of Wild Species Is Sustainable and Benefits People

By 2030, put in place sustainable management practices and use of all wild species, including through sustainable biodiversity-based activities, products and services that enhance biodiversity, and protecting and encouraging customary sustainable use...

Target 7.1: Pollution reduced, nutrient loss and pesticide risks halved by 2030

Target 7.1: By 2030, pollution from all sources, including from excess nutrients, pesticides and highly hazardous chemicals have been brought to levels that are not harmful to ecosystem functions and services and biodiversity, considering cumulative...

Target 8: Reduce emissions through NbS and EbA for community resilience

By 2030, minimize the impact of climate change and ocean acidification on biodiversity and increase its resilience through mitigation, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction actions, including through nature-based solutions and/or ecosystem-based...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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