/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2644/all en /newsroom/channels/news/measuring-protection-worlds-rivers-263979 <p>To  what extent are the world’s rivers protected?  </p> <p><span>In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, </span><a href="https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/">set a 17% target</a><span> for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.  </span></p> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:16:17 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26365 at /newsroom