IUCN director general Dr Grethel Aguilar urged unity on African voices for conservation. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP)
With a quarter of the world’s biodiversity within Africa’s borders, the clock is ticking down on the continent’s efforts to make marked conservation progress.
To strengthen measures to safeguard African biodiversity and put it on track to reach global biodiversity targets – which aim to have 30% of the planet’s oceans, lands, and freshwaters protected by 2030 – African countries need to have a unified voice, delegates at the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Africa Conservation Forum (ACF) have heard.
This week, the IUCN, the world’s largest global conservation organisation, hosted the ACF in Nairobi, Kenya.
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