Biodiversity is a matter of interest and concern to the entire world.
As a result, many biodiversity organisations and NGOs have risen to meet these concerns to ensure this system, which is essential to human beings, is preserved.
Such Biodiversity Organizations and NGOs include:
This organisation is to preserve biological diversity and ensure its components are continually used and maintained. They also ensure that the benefits of using genetic resources are shared equally.
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This is one of the top biodiversity organisations that connect people and their source of living with biological diversity, thereby protecting and building the environment. IIED works in different parts of the world but is based in London.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium assessment ensures the continued use of the ecosystem, checks the changes in the ecosystem, and the result/effect of this change in the life of humans.
World Wildlife Fund
This program supports the preservation of the world’s biodiversity by raising funds and working together with other similar groups to achieve stable financial support for global biodiversity.
E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
This is one of the top biodiversity organisations that initiate and build businesses in conservation and give strategies that will help protect the biological diversity in the environment.
Plant Conservation Alliance
This organisation uses joint efforts to keep the ecosystem by restoring native habitats and ensuring that native plants do not go out of existence.
Conservation International
This is one of the top biodiversity organisations; it collaborates with other organisations like the government, universities, local communities, businesses, and nonprofit organisations to protect life on earth and show that humans flourish well when their society is in equilibrium with nature. This is one of the top biodiversity organisations.
Society for Conservation Biology
This international organisation is committed to promoting studies related to the things that affect biological diversity. Such items could be a loss, maintenance, and restoration of biodiversity. They publish the conservation magazine and the journal on conservation biology.
Fauna & Flora International
This organisation is known for creating new ideas and programs that have become excellent examples of conservation programs. An example of such purposes includes creating protected areas like Kruger Serengeti National Parks, which preserve wildlife and the ecosystem.
International Union for Conservation Of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
This international organisation is the oldest in the world. Its job is to value nature and make sure that it is effectively used mainly to solve food and climate challenges around the world.
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
The mission of the wildlife conservation society is to encourage people to study zoology, create the highest zoo ever, and encourage the protection of wildlife.
United Nations Environment Program
This organisation drives the campaign to fight global warming, thinning the ozone layer, and other such problems that affect the environment around the entire globe. The UNEP also has plans of action to control the reduction of natural resources and protect the ecosystem.
Oceana
Oceana foundation’s sole mission is to carry out a definite campaign that is science-based and has a target delivery date to achieve planned goals of restoring and preserving the oceans of the world.
International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
This organisation protects wild plants and the ones grown by cultivation. They do this by ensuring the application of the proper measures for pest control and prevention, thereby preserving plant species.
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
This global group brings together organisations with the common interest of having a food-secured future. They aim to raise food security, improve the nutrition and health of humans, and reduce poverty, especially in rural areas.
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The primary aim of this organisation is to preserve plants and ensure the maintained use of the materials of plants for feeding and cultivation and the just distribution of the advantages gotten from the use of these natural plant materials.
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
The mission of this organisation, which studies biodiversity, is to conserve biodiversity by reducing factors that are seriously threatening the cultural and biological diversity around the world. This goes a long way to keeping and preserving our biological diversity.
Nature conservancy
The nature conservancy organisation preserves nature by protecting acres of land and river miles all around the globe. Every year and in all parts of the world, they also carry out numerous projects to conserve the marine.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
This convention is an agreement that makes sure that wildlife does not go to extinction. They do this by monitoring the global trade of wild plants and wild animals’ specimens and ensuring that this wildlife doesn’t cease to exist due to this trade.
Xerces Society
Xerces is an international organisation that is not for profit. Its mission is to keep wildlife safe by preserving invertebrates and their place of natural occurrence.
Earth Island Institute
This nonprofit institute uses education to promote the preservation of the earth. They create and back up plans to oppose or thwart the factors that are dangerous to our environment’s biological diversity.
Sierra Club
The nature conservancy organisation preserves nature by protecting acres of land and river miles all around the globe. Every year and in all parts of the world, they also carry out numerous projects to conserve the marine.
BioGem
This is a movement launched by the Natural Resources Defense Council to maintain our planet by preserving our bio gems and ensuring that our unique wild places remain wild and not go into extinction.
2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
This group connects other groups from different nations who are also leading in the development of biodiversity and checks the progress towards reaching the convention’s goal on biological diversity (CBD) 2010.
UN Biodiversity Planning Support Program
This is a movement by the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Environment Program to help nations carry out National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans of the UN convention.
Nature and wildlife are essential to us and necessary for the balance and safety of our ecology. These organisations and NGOs help conserve the planet, show the beauty of nature, and ensure they do not become extinct.
Also read: 10 Animals close to Extinction in Africa.
