{"id":24523,"date":"2025-05-22T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=24523"},"modified":"2025-05-22T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:35:17","slug":"international-day-for-biodiversity-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2025\/05\/international-day-for-biodiversity-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day for Biodiversity 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Biodiversity is crucial to human well-being, and is increasingly threatened. Habitat destruction, invasive species, overexploitation, illegal wildlife trade, pollution and climate change put the survival of species worldwide at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote | vf-u-margin__bottom--600 vf-u-margin__top--600\">\n  <div>\n    <div>\n      <strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>IUCN Red List currently includes 169420 assessed species, of which 47187 are threatened with extinction<\/strong>.    <\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Commemorating the adoption of the Convention on Biodiversity at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992,&nbsp;the theme of the International Day for Biodiversity 2025 edition is &#8220;<strong>Harmony with nature and sustainable development<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IDB 2025 campaign seeks to focus the world\u2019s attention on the linkages between the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\">2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a>&nbsp;and the Goals and Targets of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/gbf\">Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>as two universal agendas that must be pursued in tandem in the spirit of the recently adopted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/summit-of-the-future\/pact-for-the-future\">Pact for the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/biodiversity-day\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"251\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-1024x251.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-1024x251.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-768x189.png 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-1536x377.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-12.30.43-2048x503.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporting the world wide efforts in preserving biodiversity, the Szil\u00e1rd Library brings fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/\">new titles<\/a> on biodiversity, nature and species protection &#8211; visit the Library Corner in Cafeteria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-22-at-21.28.32-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-22-at-21.28.32-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-22-at-21.28.32-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-22-at-21.28.32-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-22-at-21.28.32.png 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorating the adoption of the Convention on Biodiversity at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992,\u00a0the theme of the International Day for Biodiversity 2025 edition is &#8220;Harmony with nature and sustainable development&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8023],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-new-books"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24535,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions\/24535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}