{"id":4946,"date":"2019-01-28T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:34:06","slug":"protecting-biodiversity-benefit-all-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/protecting-biodiversity-benefit-all-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting biodiversity, for the benefit of all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node node--type-blog node--view-mode-full content-single wrapper\" data-history-node-id=\"23\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-between\">\n<div class=\"col col-md-7\">\n<p>Without the services that the ecosystems offer daily we couldn\u2019t have the development and the wealth that our society enjoys: from water cycle to soil regeneration, from climate stability to the cycle of essential elements like carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus, from the use of natural resources for drugs-fibers-wood to the variety of food sources. Conscious actions are required to stop the dangerous unprecedented loss in biodiversity that we are experiencing and that regards mankind\u2019s future. Because biodiversity is the basic structure that guarantees the daily life\u2019s balance. An encouraging signal (although still a small one) came from the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the UE\u2019s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), that closed last November 29th in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with an international agreement to save the natural systems in view of the post-2020 plan, when the strategic plan for the protection of the planet\u2019s biodiversity approved in 2010 will be updated. Only the \u201cNew Deal\u201d, as WWF calls the new agreement between mankind and the Planet, will be able to stop the loss in biodiversity, provided that it is fair and respectful of every population\u2019s rights, especially those of the local communities that defend the network of life. The 196 governments that subscribed to CBD must implement strong protection measures and stop the current trend. The recent \u201cLiving Planet Report 2018\u201d by WWF shows in its Living Planet index that from 1970 to 2014 there was a 60% decrease in the number of vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes). Not to mention insects. The update of IUCN\u2019s red list (IUCN being the international union for the protection of nature) showed that out of 96.000 species examined, over 26.000 are endangered. Most of the countries of the convention are resigned to lose the preservation targets established by Aichi, in Japan, in 2010. But we can\u2019t quail. \u00abThe world must become aware about the risks that losing biodiversity implies. Without a healthy and vital nature we have no future chances of development and wealth. All the involved parties \u2013 governments, economy and citizens \u2013 have to act right now to get a chance to create a sustainable world for all of us. To do this, a close vision and a strong political will are mandatory\u00bb, states Marco Lambertini, General Manager of WWF International. Next CBD\u2019s Conference of the Parties, the 15th, will take place in Beijing, China, in 2020. The aim is reaching a \u201c Paris-style agreement\u201d for biodiversity, as it happened for the climate. Fondazione La Raia, in its own small way, has devoted to this crucial topic the book \u201cAlla scoperta della Biodiversit\u00e0\u201d (\u201cDiscovering biodiversity\u201d), written and illustrated by Renato Cottalasso, naturalist, photographer and ornithologist (fondazionelaraia.it).<\/p>\n<p><em>Giuliana Zoppis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conscious actions are needed to stop the dangerous unprecedented loss of biodiversity that we are currently experiencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-una-vita-bio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-raia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}