In 2021, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed February 2 as "World Wetlands Day", the anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. In France, this event is celebrated for a whole month with several highlights.

The Western Seine Bay is the first French marine Natura 2000 site to join the IUCN Green List of protected and conserved areas.

Within the framework of the MIROMEN program, 11 whales were equipped with GPS tags in order to better understand their migratory flows.

This 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, chaired by China, was held in Montreal from 7 to 19 December 2022. It ended with the publication of an ambitious agreement to stop the loss of biodiversity and restore it by setting quantified targets with a monitoring framework. The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) was present at this historic event.

Several resolutions in favor of wetlands were adopted at the 14th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP14) to the Ramsar Convention on wetlands.

The French biodiversity Agency (OFB) and the Bordeaux branch of the Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Violations (OCLAESP) have dismantled a major international traffic in live animals of protected species. After months of investigation, four arrests were made on French territory, including a woman suspected of being the head of the trafficking network. Servals, parrots, monkeys, meerkats, squirrels... these species bought at low prices abroad were then resold via social networks, all over France.

After a first phase, organized from October 11 to 15, 2021 in Kunming (China), the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) will be held from December 7 to 19, 2022 in Montreal.