Leaders of the G7 nations backed a coalition of about 60 countries that have promised to conserve at least 30% of their land and oceans by 2030 – dubbed 30x30 – to curb climate change and the loss of plant and animal species. Cambodia is the only Southeast Asian nation to have signed up to the goal so far, although it has been endorsed by countries in other parts of Asia-Pacific, including Japan, Pakistan and the Maldives. The growing global push to safeguard nature may fall short unless further biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal. Southeast Asia’s land and ocean contain 35% of mangrove forests and 30% of coral reefs, and is home to about 18% of the world’s endangered species, according to US-based think tank Campaign for Nature.

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