Biodiversity Caucus

2011 International Day for Biodiversity Events

The RCEN has selected 13 lead environmental NGOs from across Canada to carry outreach and education activities for IDB 2011. This year’s theme is Biodiversity and Forests and coincides with the UN declared 2011 International Year of Forests. More

Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS)

Learn about ABS, the Nagoya Protocol and the Biodiversity Caucus' work on this important issue, including results of our ABS webinar. More

Friends of the Convention on Biological Diversity

The Canadian Friends of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a civil society association hosted by the RCEN, aims to bring together stakeholders from academia, industry, municipalities and non-governmental organisations to play an active role in meeting Canada's commitments to the CBD and safeguarding biodiversity globally.

RCEN Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook

The RCEN  “Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook 2009: Case studies from the environmental non-government sector” is available for download. This handbook features twelve projects from within seven of Canada’s terrestrial ecozones that were selected as representative best practices of what environmental NGOs are doing to help increase or protect biodiversity from coast to coast to coast. More

Past projects and activities

• 2010 International Year of Biodiversity

• Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit‑sharing

• International Day for Biodiversity 2009
• International Day for Biodiversity 2008
• COP 8 and COP-MOP 3 2006 Meetings in Curitiba, Brazil