Thomas W. Crowther

🌊 Expanded Guidebook: Nature-based Models for Unlocking Private Investment into Freshwater 🌿 The Revenues for Nature (R4N) programme, in partnership with the GFI, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and BIOFIN - Biodiversity Finance Initiative, is proud to share the expanded edition of our Guidebook on Nature-based Models for Unlocking Private Investment into Freshwater. Building on the first edition launched at CBD COP16, this edition showcases innovative models that leverage #NatureBasedSolutions to improve freshwater systems while creating revenue streams that support sustainable, community-led water stewardship: ·      Act4Water Positive Water Credits ·      Payments for Watershed Services in the Chishui River Catchment ·      Reckitt's Water Stewardship Strategy As World Water Week begins, the urgency of tackling water-related challenges — from droughts driven by climate change to pollution from runoff and erosion — is clearer than ever. Mobilising private capital is key to addressing these issues at scale. 📖 Read the guidebook here: https://lnkd.in/ebjRHV52 📍In Stockholm this week for #WorldWaterWeek? Reach out to Amy Allan to connect and continue the conversation. #NatureFinance #NbS #WaterStewardship #WorldWaterWeek #Freshwater #ClimateResilience

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✊🏾 The Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework’s targets cannot be achieved without the rights, leadership, and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities. 📖 A new RRI report with Forest Peoples Programme and the ICCA Consortium analyzes the legal frameworks of 30 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and finds that, although most have potential pathways for legally recognized community-led conservation, many have yet to formalize it as a distinct and additional means of achieving national conservation priorities. 🔑 Key findings: ➡️ Traditional protected areas (PAs) remain countries’ main approach to conservation, but are rarely governed by communities. ➡️ Even though 26 of 30 countries have legal pathways to recognize community-led conservation in PAs, many PAs do not fully protect communities’ territorial rights. ➡️ 29 of 30 countries have community-based tenure regimes that could be recognized under Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures and Indigenous and Traditional Territories, but many lack the mechanisms to include these in nationally recognized conservation areas. ➡️ Fewer than half of the countries legally define and protect communities’ right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). ➡️ Women’s rights to membership, voting, and leadership remain particularly weak. 💡 The path forward requires securing tenure rights, guaranteeing FPIC, advancing gender equality, and formalizing avenues for community-led conservation in legislation and countries’ National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans. Governments must bridge the gap between law and practice for effective + equitable conservation! ➡ Download the report: https://lnkd.in/ggfJn-Xs #tenure #biodiversity #landrights #landrightsnow #conservation

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New head of the Forest and Soil Ecology Research Unit: From 1 September 2025, Arthur Gessler will head the new Forest and Soil Ecology research unit at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. The specialist in nutrient cycles in forests is an adjunct professor at ETH Zürich and one of the most cited scientists in the field of animal and plant sciences. Arthur Gessler's work aims to explain the processes that control forest growth, nutrient cycles and interactions between organisms at the molecular and the tree population level. This knowledge is crucial for understanding current changes in ecosystems and landscapes, for example in the context of climate change or changing land use. ‘The new research unit is investigating the processes and functions of forest ecosystems, such as nutrient and water cycles, holistically from the atmosphere to the plants to the soil,’ he says. https://lnkd.in/d8HRfwMp Deutsch: https://lnkd.in/d75sg-uR #forest #forestecology #drought #research

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Setting the stage for ocean conservation 🌊 The UN High Seas Treaty is an important opportunity for ocean conservation, but international efforts to protect marine life and ecosystems depend on robust data about marine biodiversity so policymakers can implement effective and equitable solutions. A new publication in Ecology Letters led by William Oestreich—a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at MBARI—with MBARI Principal Engineer Kakani Katija and collaborators from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - University of California, Santa Barbara, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and ETH Zürich quantifies biodiversity data coverage and makes actionable recommendations to fill the significant gaps. The team shares that the most effective solutions depend on collective actions across the global scientific community. These collective actions can ensure that robust biodiversity data is accessible to all, providing the basis for safeguarding the ocean ecosystems on which our planet and society depend. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBcMxStp

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A historic first in global conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN has launched its first-ever Species Survival Commission for Microbes, safeguarding microbial biodiversity that underpins human and planetary health. The group is co-chaired by Professor Raquel Peixoto of KAUST, placing the university at the forefront of global efforts to protect life’s smallest, yet most essential, species. "By uniting microbiology and conservation, we can unlock nature’s hidden resilience and design strategies to protect ecosystems under unprecedented stress. At KAUST, we are proud to contribute to this global effort, advancing research that translates into real-world solutions for biodiversity and humanity, such as our pioneering work on coral probiotics.” — Prof. Raquel Peixoto Read more: https://lnkd.in/eYSSeQ8T #KAUST #Biodiversity #Conservation #ResearchExcellence

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NEW PAPER ALERT | Important Shark and Ray Areas can inform conservation planning in the Mediterranean and Black Seas In this paper, solutions from systematic conservation planning scenarios with 73 chondrichthyan species in the Mediterranean and Black Seas were compared between approaches that ignore or include ISRAs. Including ISRAs led to higher costs for fisheries but protected a similar surface area (∼27% in both scenarios), while achieving better conservation outcomes. We highlight ways of reducing fishing costs while maintaining ISRA-based solutions. Systematic conservation planning using Important Areas gives decision makers a tool to balance cost with improved conservation quality, ultimately enhancing protected area network effectiveness by prioritizing critical habitats. Read the full paper in the journal iScience here: https://lnkd.in/gX8AeXaw #shark #ray #chimaera #research #publication #marine #conservation #ISRA

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