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Kenya's black rhino population makes remarkable recovery,

Kenya's black rhino population has made a remarkable recovery, growing from just 384 individuals in the late 1980s to the current population of 1,059 black rhinos. This resurgence is largely attribute...

27 May 2025
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𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎-𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐮

As the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) under the 2025 theme “Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development”, Kenya has taken a bold step to protect one of its most c...

25 May 2025
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Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Developing a Concept for Monitoring and Reporting on the GBF & NBSAP ABS Indicators, held on 15–16 May 2025, in Machakos, Kenya

KENYA HOLDS MULTI-STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP TO STRENGTHEN MONITORING AND REPORTING OF ABS INDICATORS UNDER THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK Date: 17 May 2025 Location: Machakos, Kenya Source: National Env...

22 May 2025
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Public Participation forums conclude in Nyeri, Kisumu and Garissa Counties

Public participation exercises on the Draft Regulations under the Forest Conservation and Management Act, CAP 385 and the Forest Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025, concluded today in ...

01 May 2025
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from the secretariat - Statement
Statement by Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on World Environment Day, 5 June 2025

05 Jun 2025
from the secretariat - Notification
Invitation to participate in the peer review of a draft report on the strategic review and analysis of the programmes of work of the Convention in the context of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

05 Jun 2025
from the secretariat - Notification
Extension of deadline: Submission of information related to possible additional indicators, on methodologies for component indicators for headline indicators 18.1 and 18.2 and on methodologies for headline indicator 22.1

04 Jun 2025
from the secretariat - Meeting
Fifteenth meeting of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

16 Jun 2026
Montreal
from the secretariat - Meeting
Twenty-first meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

09 Jun 2026
Montreal
Event
Call for exhibitors: The countdown is on to the 2nd International Wildlife Scientific Conference

Call for exhibitors: The countdown is on to the 2nd International Wildlife Scientific Conference, a premier gathering of global stakeholders in wildlife conservation, research, tourism, innovation, an...

23 Sep 2025
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National Targets

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Target 18: Identify and reduce harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for biodiversity

Identify by 2025, and progressively eliminate, phase out or reform incentives, including harmful subsidies on biodiversity reducing them by at least 10% annually, starting with the most harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

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9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure14. Life Below Water17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal11. Sustainable Cities and Communities2. Zero Hunger15. Life on Land10. Reduced Inequality12. Responsible Consumption and Production
Target 15: Businesses Assess, Disclose and Reduce Biodiversity-Related Risks and Negative Impacts

By 2030, develop legal, administrative and policy measures including a review of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) regulations and mechanisms, environmental, social and biodiversity safeguards, and others implemented to encourage and enable all businesses, and in particular to ensure that large and transnational companies and financial institutions: (a) Regularly monitor, assess, and transparently ...

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6. Clean Water and Sanitation12. Responsible Consumption and Production1. No Poverty13. Climate Action17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land
Target 12: Significantly increase the area, quality and connectivity of Urban Green and Blue Spaces

By 2027, review, update and implement policies to significantly increase the area and quality, and connectivity of, access to, and benefits from green and blue spaces in urban and densely populated areas including by: mainstreaming the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and enhancing: native biodiversity, ecological connectivity and integrity, biodiversity-inclusive research and urb...

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14. Life Below Water11. Sustainable Cities and Communities1. No Poverty6. Clean Water and Sanitation15. Life on Land
Target 3: 30% of terrestrial and inland water areas, and marine and coastal areas are Effectively Conserved and managed.

Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 percent of terrestrial and inland water areas, and of marine and coastal areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservat...

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2. Zero Hunger12. Responsible Consumption and Production6. Clean Water and Sanitation14. Life Below Water13. Climate Action9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure15. Life on Land11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target 4.2:Manage Human- Wildlife Conflicts

By 2030, manage and reduce human wildlife negative interactions by at least 35%.

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15. Life on Land10. Reduced Inequality2. Zero Hunger3. Good Health and Well-being14. Life Below Water1. No Poverty17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal12. Responsible Consumption and Production
Target 5 : By 2030 ensure Harvest, use and trade of wild species are legal, safe and sustainable

By 2030, ensure legal, safe and sustainable use, harvest and trade of wild flora and fauna species including fish and other aquatic species, preventing over-exploitation, minimizing impacts on non-target species and ecosystems, reducing the risk of pathogen spill over, applying ecosystem-based approaches while respecting and protecting customary use by indigenous peoples and local communities and ...

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15. Life on Land17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal14. Life Below Water1. No Poverty12. Responsible Consumption and Production2. Zero Hunger
Target 21: Enhance availability and access to credible data and knowledge to inform biodiversity action.

By 2030, ensure that the best available data, information and knowledge are accessible to decision- makers, practitioners and the public to guide effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity, and to strengthen communication, awareness-raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, traditional knowledge, in...

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5. Gender Equality6. Clean Water and Sanitation8. Decent Work and Economic Growth10. Reduced Inequality16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions15. Life on Land2. Zero Hunger4. Quality Education
Target 23: Ensure Gender integration in biodiversity approaches and actions.

By 2030, ensure gender equality in the implementation of the Framework through a gender-responsive approach, where all women and girls have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention including by recognizing their equal rights and access to land and natural resources and their full, equitable, meaningful and informed participation and leadership at all l...

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10. Reduced Inequality2. Zero Hunger5. Gender Equality14. Life Below Water16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions12. Responsible Consumption and Production1. No Poverty15. Life on Land
Target14: Mainstreaming biodiversity across all sectors

By 2030, biodiversity values have been fully integrated into policies, regulations, planning processes, business strategies, poverty eradication interventions, fiscal and financial flows, strategic environmental assessments, environmental impact assessments, and all sectors with significant impacts on biodiversity, both at national and county levels, across public and private sectors.

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15. Life on Land11. Sustainable Cities and Communities10. Reduced Inequality1. No Poverty16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions6. Clean Water and Sanitation2. Zero Hunger17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Target 17: Strengthen biosafety measures and enhance access to benefits of biotechnology.

By 2030 strengthen capacity for, and implement, biosafety measures as set out in Article 8(g) of the Convention on Biological Diversity and measures for the handling of biotechnology including emerging biotechnologies and distribution of its benefits as set out in Article 19 of the Convention

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14. Life Below Water13. Climate Action17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal15. Life on Land
Target 20: By 2030 Enhanced Capacity-Building, Technology Transfer, and Innovation through National and International Collaboration

By 2030, strengthen capacity-building and development, access to and transfer of technology, and promote innovation through enhanced technical and scientific cooperation at all levels, with emphasis on collaborative efforts both nationally and internationally.

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17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal14. Life Below Water
Target16: Promote sustainable production and consumption practices

Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices, including by strengthening supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and alternatives, and by 2030, equitably reduce the footprint of consumption, including through halving national food waste, significantly reducing overconsumpti...

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3. Good Health and Well-being14. Life Below Water4. Quality Education9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure6. Clean Water and Sanitation11. Sustainable Cities and Communities12. Responsible Consumption and Production8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
Target 10: Achieve 20% Sustainable Management in Aquaculture, Fisheries, Forestry, and Agriculture by 2030

By 2030, ensure at least 20% (to be reviewed after the baseline assessment) of areas under aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, and agriculture are sustainably managed, including through sustainable use, certification mechanisms, the application of spatial planning, and other biodiversity-friendly and innovative approaches and agro-ecological practices; regenerative agriculture, precision farming, in...

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12. Responsible Consumption and Production2. Zero Hunger14. Life Below Water6. Clean Water and Sanitation11. Sustainable Cities and Communities13. Climate Action1. No Poverty3. Good Health and Well-being
Target 7.2: By 2030 Achieve responsible Plastic Use

By 2030, move towards a more responsible use of plastics, (through enforcing ban on single use plastic products and extended producer responsibility- EPR) ensuring that where possible products placed on the market are reusable and recyclable, while reducing plastic packaging products by 60%.

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11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land3. Good Health and Well-being12. Responsible Consumption and Production6. Clean Water and Sanitation14. Life Below Water2. Zero Hunger
Target 6: By 2030, reduce the establishment of invasive species by 50%

By 2030, reduce the establishment of invasive species by 50% by identifying and managing pathways of the introduction and eradication and/or control, especially in priority areas such as urban spaces, farmlands, forests, protected and conserved areas, rangelands, inland waters, coastal and marine ecosystems

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11. Sustainable Cities and Communities13. Climate Action15. Life on Land6. Clean Water and Sanitation2. Zero Hunger12. Responsible Consumption and Production14. Life Below Water1. No Poverty
Target 22: Ensure inclusive participation in biodiversity related decision-making processes

By 2030, ensure the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender-responsive representation and participation in decision-making processes, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities in conservation efforts while respecting their cultural rights and land ownership t...

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12. Responsible Consumption and Production16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions5. Gender Equality14. Life Below Water6. Clean Water and Sanitation1. No Poverty10. Reduced Inequality11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
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 approaches, by reducing Green House Gases Emissions (GHG) by 32% relative to Business as Usual (BAU) while minimizing negative and fostering positive im...

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2. Zero Hunger13. Climate Action6. Clean Water and Sanitation15. Life on Land12. Responsible Consumption and Production1. No Poverty11. Sustainable Cities and Communities14. Life Below Water
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 by Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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2. Zero Hunger16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions14. Life Below Water11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land10. Reduced Inequality6. Clean Water and Sanitation5. Gender Equality
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 effects while taking into account food security and livelihoods.

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11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land3. Good Health and Well-being12. Responsible Consumption and Production6. Clean Water and Sanitation14. Life Below Water2. Zero Hunger
Target 2: Ensure 27.3% of degraded areas are under effective restoration

Ensure that by 2030 at least 27.3% of degraded areas are under effective restoration, in order to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, ecological integrity and connectivity 3.4% of areas of degraded forests 7.7% of areas of degraded Agro-ecosystems 13.4% of areas of degraded rangelands 1.3% of areas of degraded wetlands and water towers 0.03% of areas of degraded marine ecosy...

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2. Zero Hunger1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water6. Clean Water and Sanitation11. Sustainable Cities and Communities12. Responsible Consumption and Production13. Climate Action17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal
 

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Roots of Change: Community-Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Kenya

The mangroves of Lamu and Tana account for over 65% (40,610 ha) of Kenya’s mangrove forests, which cover 61,271 ha. These critical ecosystems have been and are currently under threat mainly from loggi...

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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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African Environmental Health and Pollution Management

The African Environmental Health and Pollution Management Project is a five years Global Environment Facility sixth framework-funded project in five African countries notably; Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,...

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Élaboration des textes: lois, décrets et arrêtés en matière d’APA au Bénin

Le Bénin a ratifié le protocole de Nagoya sur les ressources génétiques et le Partage Juste et Équitable des Avantages découlant de leur utilisation, le 23 janvier 2014. La stratégie nationale APA a p...

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