Biological invasions: a growing threat to biodiversity 07 May
2012 | News story Biological invasions: a growing threat to
biodiversity, human health and food security. Policy
recommendations for the Rio+20 process drafted by IUCN SSC
Invasive Species Specialist Group and IUCN's Invasive Species
Initiative. Planet Under Pressure 2012 was the largest gathering
of global change scientists leading up to the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) with a total of
3,018 delegates at the conference venue and over 3,500 that
attended virtually via live webstreaming. The first State of the
Planet Declaration was issued at the conference. Following the
conference and declaration several ISSG members were concerned
with the limited attention being paid to the issue of biological
invasions and invasive alien species in the Rio+20 process.
Members proposed the development and submission of a policy
paper highlighting the growing threat of biological invasions on
biodiversity, human health and food se