: Biodiversity

News from Population Matters.

  • Turtle banner

    Ocean with David Attenborough: A Wake-Up Call for Our Planet

    Despite covering 70% of the Earth’s surface, less than 3% of the world’s oceans are protected, leaving vast areas vulnerable to exploitation. This reality is highlighted in Ocean with David Attenborough, released on 8 June for World Oceans Day.

  • Vanishing Icons: Endangered Species and the Human Impact in 2025

    According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. This number encompasses endangered species many of us have been in…

  • Walking in a forest

    Beyond Growth – The Promise of a Wellbeing Economy

    In this guest blog, econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington considers whether a transition to a Wellbeing Economy is possible and what that would mean for our society and how…

  • Nature’s Decline Deepens: Insights from the Living Planet Report 2024

    The Living Planet Report 2024 reveals that wildlife populations have dropped 73% on average since 1970. It warns that national governments are failing to meet biodiversity targets and calls for an urgent need to transform our current economic and food systems, but it only skirts around the issue of continued global population growth.

  • COP16: Amplifying Our Partner’s Voices

    The United Nations Biodiversity Conference is taking place in Cali, Colombia this year, and we are excited to be sponsoring our long-time partners Women for Conservation to attend the event and promote family planning as an important aspect when it comes to protecting biodiversity.

  • Feeding Billions, Failing Nature

    Today is World Food Day, currently our unsustainable food systems are one of the main drivers of nature’s decline. Florence Blondel, our Content and Campaigns Specials reviews the impact of our food systems on the planet.

  • Mekong Delta Tour, Vietnam

    Running out of room: Humans encroaching on wildlife habitats

    Population growth means that humans will push further into wildlife habitats across more than 50% of land by 2070, causing biodiversity loss, increased human-wildlife conflict, and worsening outcomes for local communities. We then examine the positive solutions available such as Population Health Environment.

  • The duel threats to endangered elephants

    This World Elephant Day, we revisit the elephant chapter of our Vanishing Icons report. It explores the main reasons African elephants are endangered: poaching and habitat fragmentation, and how population growth contributes to both.

  • The Battle for Territory: How Human Expansion Affects Tiger Habitat

    This International Tiger Day, we revisit the tiger chapter of our Vanishing Icons report. It investigates the loss of tiger habitat, 57% of which is within 5km of a road, and the impacts of population growth.

  • Drowned Out: Why Whale Beachings Are On The Rise

    Following the tragic mass beaching of 77 pilot whales on World Population Day, we assess how human activity is damaging the world’s oceans and having catastrophic effects for the survival of the world’s marine species.