Halting habitat loss

16 December 2010 | Audio

In Nagoya, governments made a big and important step forward in addressing the greatest individual threat to biodiversity: the loss and degradation of habitats, such as forests, wetlands or coral reefs, which are natural homes to a variety of plants, animals and other types of organisms.

Neville Ash of IUCN’s Ecosystem Management Programme tells us what exactly has been agreed to stop their loss and degradation.


View of logging road in the Cameroon Forests