Welcome to the Morpho Institute’s Education for Biodiversity Resource Page — a growing hub designed to help educators connect classroom learning to the urgent global mission of protecting life on Earth. Here, you’ll find tools, guides, and inspiration to integrate biodiversity education and the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) into your teaching practice. This page is a work in progress, evolving just like the ecosystems and communities we aim to support.
Check back often as we continue to add new resources, case studies, and educator stories that bridge education, conservation, and action for a living planet.
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BACKGROUND ON THE GBF & TARGETS
Resource: Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) — Convention on Biological Diversity
This comprehensive framework sets the global agenda for biodiversity through to 2050, with 4 overarching goals and 23 specific targets for 2030. It equips educators, policymakers and learners with a structured roadmap to translate biodiversity ambition into action—in schools, communities and institutions alike.
Resource: 2030 Targets (with Guidance Notes) – Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
This page presents the 23 urgent global targets set out in the Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, alongside guidance notes for each. It serves as a practical reference for national and local biodiversity planning—highlighting key terms, monitoring indicators, resources and questions to inform target-setting and implementation processes.
EDUCATION AND THE GBF
NEW! Resource: Learning for Life: Mobilizing Education for the Global Biodiversity Framework
This new guidance document equips educators, NGOs, and policymakers with practical tools to integrate biodiversity learning across education and outreach, empower educators as changemakers for nature, and strengthen global collaboration between education and conservation sectors—all in support of GBF Target 21: ensuring that people everywhere have the knowledge and skills to live in harmony with nature.
Resource: Life Lessons: Bringing Biodiversity into the Classroom (CBD)
A call to make biodiversity a living part of education—this piece highlights how schools can nurture curiosity, connection, and stewardship through hands-on, place-based learning that brings nature into every classroom.
Resource: Teaching Biodiversity: Towards a Sustainable and Engaged Education
This study delves into how educators understand and teach biodiversity within a sustainability-focused framework. Through a mixed-methods survey of 118 teachers, it explores their conceptions of biodiversity, the teaching approaches they use, and the pedagogical gaps that remain. It offers useful insights for designing engaged, meaningful biodiversity education and guiding policy on educator training.
TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES
Resource: e-Learning Catalogue: The Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Learning for Nature)
A centralized, free e-learning platform offering a curated suite of courses—ranging from introductory to specialized—on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The catalogue supports multilingual access, certification pathways, and flexible learning formats to empower educators, practitioners and policy-makers engaging with biodiversity action.
Resource: Teaching Tools About Biodiversity (World Wildlife Fund)
This educator toolkit empowers teachers of Grades 6–8 to bring biodiversity into the classroom through engaging activities, presentations and student-friendly science. It helps learners explore why biodiversity matters, how life on Earth is interconnected, and what they can do to make a difference.
Join the Movement
Education for biodiversity is education for life. By working together—scientists, teachers, and communities—we can create lasting change that protects the planet’s living systems. Together, we can ensure that the next generation doesn’t just learn about biodiversity—they learn to care for it.
Explore our programs and projects to see how Morpho can help you bring the Global Biodiversity Framework to life in your classroom.
