South Africa calls for global biodiversity fund - The proposal was made during the Cop15 biodiversity conference in China last week when the conference adopted a post-2020 framework to save nature
when the conference adopted a new post-2020 framework to save nature.
“We are also working with development finance institutions such as the Development Bank of Southern Africa, to enhance their investment criteria to include biodiversity risk.”Anlast year found that “nature and its vital contributions to people, which together embody biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are deteriorating worldwide.
But all provinces are not equal and although protected area estates have expanded in all provinces and in all biomes across South Africa, it has not done so evenly. Biomes in the Northern Cape consist of the Nama-Karoo, succulent Karoo, savanna, fynbos and grassland.
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