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Where We Are

Earth's ecosystems are vital for sustaining human life.?Forests regulate water cycles, store carbon, protect communities from climate?extremes?and provide livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people. Healthy ecosystems underpin food security, health,?and economic prosperity.?

There are encouraging signs of progress?on Goal 15. Deforestation has slowed, protection of key biodiversity areas has expanded, and more than half of the world's forests are now covered by long-term management plans. By 2025, 155 countries had?established?national biodiversity targets,?catalyzed by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.?Yet more than 48,600 species?face?extinction, and global extinction risk continues to worsen.?

?This October, the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP17, will bring countries together in Yerevan, Armenia, for the first global review of progress?on?Goal 15.?

Read More about Goal 15 – Life on Land.??

SDGs in numbers

• Protected coverage of key biodiversity areas averaged 45 per cent in 2025, marking a significant rise from?25 per cent.?
• The annual net forest-loss rate dropped by over half, moving from 10.7 million hectares in?1990s to?4.1 million.?
• 55 percent?of the world's forests, now fall under the scope of long-term management plans.?
• Initiatives across 78 developing nations?assisted?over one million farmers, researchers, and breeders with crop diversity and resilient seeds.?

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