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ACB: The First Five Yearspresents the status of biodiversity in Southeast Asia, challenges faced by ASEAN Member States in reducing biodiversity loss, success stories, ways forward, and future prospects for biodiversity in the region. |
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ASEAN Biodiversity Magazine New!Volume 10, Number 2 Countries all over the world are celebrating 2011 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2011). Launched on February 2, 2011 during the High-Level Segment of the Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) in New York, Forests 2011 was declared to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests. The celebration, with the theme “Forests for People,” is serving as a global platform to celebrate people’s action to sustainably manage the world’s forests. |
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The book “The ASEAN Heritage Parks: A Journey to the Natural Wonders of Southeast Asia” is a publication of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) in collaboration with the ten ASEAN Member States – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. |
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The ASEAN Biodiversity Outlookpresents the status of biodiversity in Southeast Asia, challenges faced by ASEAN Member States in reducing biodiversity loss, success stories, ways forward, and future prospects for biodiversity in the region. |
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Protected Areas Gap Analysis of the ASEAN Region New!In Southeast Asia, almost a quarter (24 percent) of the total forest areas have been declared as protected areas, meeting the percentage area requirement of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Program of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) of targeting at least 10 percent of ecologically significant terrestrial areas to be ecologically managed and protected by 2010. Closer analysis, however, reveals that 34 percent of the total Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) comprising 603,700 square kilometers remain unprotected, interpreted in this report as representation gaps. Sixteen percent of the areas are partially protected, representing ecological gaps. |
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ASEAN Biodiversity Magazine New!Volume 10, Number 1 Only a fraction of the world’s species have been identified owing to insufficient funding and a shortage of taxonomists, according to a Brazilian study. Scientists Fernando Carbayo and Antonio Marques from the University of Sao Paulo, writing in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, said only 1.4 million species have been catalogued, thus far. This leaves an estimated 5.4 million unknown to science. The duo estimated that it would take US$263 billion to catalogue the unknown species. |
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ASEAN Biodiversity MagazineVolume 9, Number 3 Nagoya, Japan took center stage when it hosted the world’s biggest biodiversity conference ever,drawing 15,000 representatives of governments and their partners from 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the CBD, held from October 18 to 29, 2010, resulted in the adoption by five heads of state and 130 ministers of environment of an agreement on access and benefit sharing of the world’s rich but highly threatened biodiversity. |
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ASEAN Biodiversity MagazineVolume 9, Number 2 According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), there are 5 to 30 million distinct species on Earth. Humankind’s prosperity and survival depends on benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems and the species living in them. Collectively, these benefits are known as ecosystem services. |
