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SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre

SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre provides new perspectives on the importance of biodiversity for people and communities.

News from CBM

  • 15 March 2023

    The ‘High Seas Treaty’ – a historic agreement to safeguard marine biodiversity in international waters

    After a 17 year long process and weeks of intense negotiations, the United Nations (UN) has agreed on a global legal framework to protect the world's largest ecosystem, the deep seas. The framework addresses both their protection and the distribution of income from resources discovered in the ocean depths.
  • 24 January 2023

    Millets and other traditional crops can boost sustainable agrifood systems

    The United Nations has dedicated 2023 the International year of millets, to boost efforts in producing millets given their nutritional properties and resilience in adapting to climate change. SLU researchers work on a variety of projects involving millets and other traditional crops.
  • 12 January 2023

    New global framework for biodiversity adopted

    People at a podium applauding. Photo. On December 19 2022, new goals were adopted to save biodiversity in the world through the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, after many years of preparation and intensive negotiations. Now the work towards the new goals needs to start without delay, the secretariat of the convention writes in its press release.

New publications

Read the latest reports and articles published by researchers at SLU Swedish Biodiversity Cente. Latest publication: "Wild boar behaviour during live-trap capture in a corral-style trap: implications for animal welfare", (Åsa Fahlman et al, in Acta Vet Scand).

Published: 11 August 2022 - Page editor: cbm-webmaster@slu.se
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