Conservation is development. USAID works in nearly 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, leverage private sector funds, fight conservation crime, and support sustainable fisheries—all of which help partner countries build resilience and shape their futures. BiodiversityLinks showcases the most recent products, projects, and news from USAID’s work around the world.
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Wildlife
Healthy wildlife populations are integral to the well-being and cultural heritage of people around the world. The survival of iconic species—like elephants, corals, great apes, or jaguars—depends on conservation.
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Marine and Fisheries
Each year, USAID focuses on strengthening resource governance and management, combating illegal fishing, promoting seafood traceability, improving food security and inclusive development, empowering women, enhancing resilience, and diversifying financial strategies for achieving durable change.
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Forestry
USAID partners with about 45 countries to protect, restore, and manage their forests while reducing poverty and improving lives.
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Cross-sectoral Integration
As part of the Biodiversity Policy, USAID prioritizes working across sectors and building the evidence base for integrated programming. When we work together across sectors, we can achieve more sustainable and resilient outcomes for people and for the planet we call home.
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Adaptive Management
Adaptive management is an intentional approach to making decisions and adjustments in response to new information and changes in context.
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Key Resources
USAID has produced in-depth guidance and tools to support biodiversity programming throughout the program cycle.
Biodiversity and the USAID Climate Strategy
The USAID Climate Strategy recognizes the concurrent global crisis of accelerated biodiversity loss and the ways in which climate change undermines the resilience of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, increasing stress on already scarce resources.
LEARNING & EVIDENCE
Learning Group Resources
Evidence Collections
Evidence collections contain curated resources on specific biodiversity conservation topics to support evidence-based decision-making for improved programming.
One Health Evidence Collection
One Health is an “integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent.
Conservation Enterprises Evidence Collection
Conservation enterprise approaches are used extensively in USAID biodiversity programming, yet little information has been collected in a systematic way to test key assumptions regarding the effectiveness of this approach.
Combating Wildlife Trafficking Evidence Collection
The CWT Learning Group is focused on building a knowledge base around how best to build capacity for law enforcement, reduce consumer demand, and improve community engagement to combat wildlife crime.
Wild Meat Evidence Collection
Wildlife is a critical component of biodiversity and ecosystem services that support human wellbeing. Many communities depend on wildlife for their livelihoods as well as for food and nutrition.
