WCS published a brochure show-casing how the conservation of wildlife and wild places is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), taking examples from our work: The adoption of the seventeen SDGs in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) represented a significant step in integrating the conservation of wildlife and wild places into the UN’s global development agenda. WCS staff were actively engaged in the effort to include references to terrestrial and marine wildlife and ecosystems in the goals, as included in Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 15: Life on Land. We are also working to advocate for the role played by wildlife and wild places in delivering many of the other SDGs, for example in relation to food security, peace and climate action. WCS EU is working to ensure that this agenda is properly implemented at the EU level and that wildlife and wild places are integrated into EU aid and development programmes. To align with the SDGs, the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) is taking steps in its support for biodiversity by developing a holistic strategy to support wildlife conservation worldwide. The European Commission released a number of ground-breaking in-depth studies including: WCS is working to provide scientific and technical input to these documents and to advocate their full implementation.WCS strongly supports this unprecedented initiative by DG INTPA to support wildlife conservation, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate on this issue. WCS is also an implementing partner of the EU NaturAfrica initiative, which supports programmes that connect conservation and development in key national and transboundary landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa. Learn more READ MORE 2025 WCS EU comments on the Simplification of EU Environmental Legislation WCS EU comments on the upcoming EU Bioeconomy Strategy WCS EU comments on the next EU Funding for External Action 2024 Reception on CBD COP16 and UNFCCC COP29 NGOs statement on prioritising biodiversity in the post-2027 EU budget WCS EU at the IUCN RCF for Europe, North, and Central Asia WCS EU comments on the Update of the Belgian Biodiversity Strategy MEP Letter on Increasing EU Biodiversity Finance WCS at CMS COP14 in Uzbekistan 2023 Global Gateway Civil Society and Local Authorities Dialogue Platform NGOs statement on the EU Restoration Law WCS EU comments on the MFF mid-term review and revision Workshop on Implementing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2022 Reception on COP27 and COP15 IUCN Africa Protected Area Congress in Kigali European Development Days NGOs letter to EU Ministers on Global Biodiversity Finance A New Africa-EU Partnership Can Help Protect Africa’s Unique Biodiversity 2021 Virtual High-Profile Dialogue on Central Asia’s Biodiversity Conservation IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille European Development Days NGOs letter to EU Commissioner on Global Europe instrument WCS EU submission on the evaluation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 WCS recommendations at the EP ENVI hearing on biodiversity 2020 NGOs statement following the Finance in Common Summit NGOs letter to EU Commissioners on zoonotic outbreaks NGOs letter to EU Commissioners on biodiversity finance NGOs statement on the EU development aid budget WCS EU recommendations for the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030 WCS EU recommendations for the EU-Africa Strategy WCS EU comments on a roadmap for the EU Strategy for Biodiversity to 2030 2019 NGOs letter to EU Ministers regarding the post-2020 EU budget NGOs letter to MEPs regarding the post-2020 EU budget 2018 NGOs statement calling for increased funding for biodiversity 2017 WCS response to the Public Consultation on the EU External Financing Instruments
WCS published a brochure show-casing how the conservation of wildlife and wild places is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), taking examples from our work:
The adoption of the seventeen SDGs in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) represented a significant step in integrating the conservation of wildlife and wild places into the UN’s global development agenda. WCS staff were actively engaged in the effort to include references to terrestrial and marine wildlife and ecosystems in the goals, as included in Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 15: Life on Land. We are also working to advocate for the role played by wildlife and wild places in delivering many of the other SDGs, for example in relation to food security, peace and climate action. WCS EU is working to ensure that this agenda is properly implemented at the EU level and that wildlife and wild places are integrated into EU aid and development programmes.
To align with the SDGs, the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) is taking steps in its support for biodiversity by developing a holistic strategy to support wildlife conservation worldwide. The European Commission released a number of ground-breaking in-depth studies including:
WCS is working to provide scientific and technical input to these documents and to advocate their full implementation.WCS strongly supports this unprecedented initiative by DG INTPA to support wildlife conservation, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate on this issue.
WCS is also an implementing partner of the EU NaturAfrica initiative, which supports programmes that connect conservation and development in key national and transboundary landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa. Learn more
WCS EU comments on the Simplification of EU Environmental Legislation WCS EU comments on the upcoming EU Bioeconomy Strategy WCS EU comments on the next EU Funding for External Action
Reception on CBD COP16 and UNFCCC COP29 NGOs statement on prioritising biodiversity in the post-2027 EU budget WCS EU at the IUCN RCF for Europe, North, and Central Asia WCS EU comments on the Update of the Belgian Biodiversity Strategy MEP Letter on Increasing EU Biodiversity Finance WCS at CMS COP14 in Uzbekistan
Global Gateway Civil Society and Local Authorities Dialogue Platform NGOs statement on the EU Restoration Law WCS EU comments on the MFF mid-term review and revision Workshop on Implementing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
Reception on COP27 and COP15 IUCN Africa Protected Area Congress in Kigali European Development Days NGOs letter to EU Ministers on Global Biodiversity Finance A New Africa-EU Partnership Can Help Protect Africa’s Unique Biodiversity
Virtual High-Profile Dialogue on Central Asia’s Biodiversity Conservation IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille European Development Days NGOs letter to EU Commissioner on Global Europe instrument WCS EU submission on the evaluation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 WCS recommendations at the EP ENVI hearing on biodiversity
NGOs statement following the Finance in Common Summit NGOs letter to EU Commissioners on zoonotic outbreaks NGOs letter to EU Commissioners on biodiversity finance NGOs statement on the EU development aid budget WCS EU recommendations for the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030 WCS EU recommendations for the EU-Africa Strategy WCS EU comments on a roadmap for the EU Strategy for Biodiversity to 2030
NGOs letter to EU Ministers regarding the post-2020 EU budget NGOs letter to MEPs regarding the post-2020 EU budget
NGOs statement calling for increased funding for biodiversity
WCS response to the Public Consultation on the EU External Financing Instruments