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Uganda is renowned for its rich biodiversity. However, its growing population and high poverty rates are driving encroachment into protected areas and other biodiverse landscapes, leading to habitat destruction, human-wildlife conflict, spread of zoonotic diseases, and over-exploitation of natural resources.

• Uganda
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Nature Facility
• 2024

The mountainous northern Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand regularly experience devastating landslides due to their topography and monsoon climate. Flows of mud and rock have killed and injured thousands of people, damaged property and displaced vulnerable communities. The landslides pose a significant societal challenge, not only in terms of immediate destruction but also because of their long-term impacts on livelihoods, infrastructure and regional development. Over time, they degrade biodiversity and ecosystem services.

• India
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Nature Facility
• 2024

It is critical to build a high-quality evidence base to support the efficacy of investments in nature-based interventions. The review aims to address three key questions: 1. What evidence exists on the effectiveness and trade-offs of a selected subset of nature-based interventions – for poverty alleviation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, nature and its biodiversity conservation, sustainable management or restoration, and cost? 2. Where are the evidence gaps? 3. What, broadly, does the evidence conclude?

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Nature based solutions
• Nature Facility
• 2024

This tool guides FCDO staff in integrating five core environmental principles—integration, prevention, rectification at source, polluter pays, and precautionary—into policy development. It provides a structured framework with targeted questions to ensure environmental considerations are embedded in decision-making processes. After internal trials, the Energy, Climate and Environment Directorate implemented the tool across the FCDO on November 1, 2023, aligning with the statutory duty's commencement.

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Nature Facility
• 2023

This report recommends investing in water-saving measures, traditional soil and water conservation techniques, agroforestry, livestock integration, and organic farming. It also suggests enhancing governance of land and natural resources, testing nature-based restoration in degraded areas, and building data infrastructure for climate-resilient agriculture.

• Morocco
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2023

In this brief, the Nature Facility provides recommendations to FCDO in Uganda and DRC for programming and policy engagement priorities with joint conservation, development, and climate change objectives. Recommendations are in line with the requirements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and the “nature for climate and people” pillar of the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) strategy.

• Uganda
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2024

Recent international health emergencies demonstrate the need for resilient health systems and accelerated global action. The One Health concept is based on the observation that the health of humans, animals, plants, and the wider environment is closely linked and interdependent. This interdependency means that no single discipline or sector can tackle health threats that occur at the interface between humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems in isolation.

• United Kingdom
• Health
• Nature Facility
• 2025

The magnitude of environmental crime in the Amazon is underestimated because of poor data. As a result, environmental crime is not fully considered in the design of conservation programmes, weakening efforts to achieve effective and sustainable management of the Amazonian ecosystem. The impact of illegal economies in the Amazon lies not only in their economic value but also in their social effects and their capacity to generate norms that legitimise activities that harm ecosystems.

• Peru
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Guyana
• Suriname
• Ecuador
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Nature Facility
• 2024