Big Plan for nature needs Big Action now 08 October 2012 | News
story Governments must take action and invest in nature to
secure the diversity of life on earth and address today’s
development challenges – urges IUCN at the 11th Conference of
the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD
COP11), which starts today in Hyderabad, India. Governments
meeting in Hyderabad will discuss implementation of the
decisions taken at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in 2010,
including the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and its 2020 Aichi
Targets to save and restore nature. “In Nagoya, we agreed the
Big Plan with ambitious yet realistic targets to save our
planet’s biodiversity,” says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director
General. “We need to keep the momentum going. Biodiversity loss
continues and has breached safe planetary boundaries. It’s time
for a serious check-up on progress we’ve made to turn the Big
Plan into Big Action.” According to the IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species™, out of the 63,837 species ass