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Wildlife Crime in Ecuador: The Hidden Crisis | UNODC Fights Back
From jaguar trafficking to illegal logging in the Amazon, criminals are putting Ecuador’s biodiversity at risk. But hope is not lost—UNODC is training police, park rangers, and legal experts to fight back and protect our most vulnerable species. Watch how frontline defenders are taking action to stop this environmental crime.
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‘Let us never lose hope’: Young leaders on the frontlines of climate action
From rising tides threatening coastal communities, to the urgent need for global energy transition, climate change is no distant crisis – it is a present reality. For young climate advocates like Fatou Jeng from The Gambia and Beniamin Strzelecki from Poland, the fight can be deeply personal. As they near the end of their tenure on the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, they’ve been reflecting on what they’ve achieved.
In this interview with UN News’ Pia Blondel, they discuss bridging grassroots activism and high-level policymaking – and share their advice for the next generation of advisers.
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Karen, Adriana, and Rosana care deeply for their land. Through their work in rural Uruguay and their promotion of agroecology, they help preserve biodiversity and strengthen their communities—proving that local action is essential to achieving global environmental goals.
The first wave of desert locust swarms hit Somalia in 2019. Fields became barren with nothing left behind for animals to graze and the livelihoods of agropastoralists were shattered in a matter of hours. In recent years, the development of nature-based biopesticides has offered a safe alternative to locust control.
Every year from November to April, flocks of the elegant and graceful cranes travel to the vast plateau wetlands in a nature reserve located in the Yunnan Province, China. Chen Guanghui works on making sure these cranes do not struggle to find food during extreme weather conditions.