Biodiversity

Preserve biodiversity, restore ecosystems, strengthen resilience

The OSS supports its member countries in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, placing biodiversity and sustainable land management at the heart of its mission.

As an African Technical and Scientific Support Center, part of a global network of 18 similar centers, the OSS supports its member countries by production and dissemination environmental data, financing mobilization, institutional support, and capacity building.

For twenty years, the OSS has been conducting projects in diverse ecosystems (forests, wetlands, oases, coastlines, protected areas, and agricultural lands) affecting more than 5 million people, primarily in rural areas. These actions directly contribute to SDGs 15, 13, and 2 and confirm the OSS’s role as a regional catalyst for biodiversity conservation.