Biodiversity Program Current Activities:
National Law and Biodiversity

CIEL provides information on biodiversity-related legal issues in response to requests from activists and environmental lawyers in other countries.  CIEL has also worked on building capacity and sharing skills in developing countries and countries with economies in transition such as Bulgaria and Uzbekistan. 

In the United States, CIEL advocates for governmental laws and policies consistent with the Biodiversity Convention, working in part through the Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET), a network of NGOs that CIEL launched in 1993 in cooperation with the Sierra Club and other US environmental groups.