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Finding agreement in transdisciplinary knowledge production can be a challenge, however by focusing on agreement around commonalities and points of difference, experts in IPBES have developed an approach that accommodates both diversity and consensus.

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an international knowledge institution established through the United Nations system.

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an expert institution expected to transform the governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. IPBES expands on previous initiatives and positions itself as a knowledge-policy interface open to different ways of knowing biodiversity.

The Southern Sand Octopus, Octopus kaurna, is a small bottom-dwelling octopus species from south-eastern Australia now known to build its own burrow out of mucus.

This blog post was originally published on the Future Earth Blog. __________________________________________________________________ Research initiatives often find added value in the networks of people and processes they create, writes Jasper Montana. “DIVERSITAS is not just like any other scientific body – it is a network” posits Georgina Mace, the chair of the DIVERSITAS Scientific Committee. Like…

This blog post was originally published on the BBC TV Blog. ______________________________________________________________ It shouldn’t have been this wet. The 4 x 4 slid across the muddy track like it was an oil slick and slammed into the bank on the edge of the road, almost knocking us all out. Water buffalo stood sodden and dripping…

This blog post was originally published on the BBC Human Planet Blog _________________________________________________________________________ Metal pins are slowly spreading across the map of the world in our office – each one representing a trip, a recce, a shoot, and another sequence of Human Planet recorded onto what have now become many kilometres of magnetic video tape.  …

This blog originally appeared on the BBC Human Planet Blog _____________________________________________________________ On a grassy hillside overlooking the undulating hills of central Mongolia, I grasp a unique insight into someone else’s world.  In the valley below is the melee of a hundred charging horses kicking backlit dust into the still air.  From high above, the action…