Nigeria, Oct. 29 -- African governments must demonstrate stronger commitment to biodiversity conservation by integrating it into national investment priorities and allocating resources for implementation, an official of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said.

Arona Soumare, the bank's Chief Climate Change and Green Growth Officer, made the call during a panel discussion on the sidelines of the ongoing 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia.

The discussion, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), was themed "From Commitments to Action: What Africa's Seventh National Reports Reveal About Progress, Gaps and Opportunities for Delivering the Global Biodiversit...