This article assesses the potential of the main biodiversity and nature conservation treaties to offer further environmental protection during armed conflict. Several authors have more recently entered this space, but none have so far undertaken a rule-by-rule analysis and spanning such a range of treaties. ![]() However, neither body was able to analyse the applicability of IEL obligations during armed conflict. Can international environmental law (IEL) fare any better? The International Law Commission (ILC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have both submitted major new guidelines in the last two years, following more than a decade of in-depth analysis of the IHL rules governing protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict. International humanitarian law (IHL) has consistently come up short in delivering environmental protection on the battlefield. ![]() Whether harm is caused directly by bullets and bombs, through the seepage of toxic chemicals into rivers and soils, the ground-churning tracks of tanks, or the ‘conservation vacuum’ the result is often the same - severe, possibly permanent, ecological change. Biodiversity and nature are severely impacted by armed conflict, particularly those fought in biodiversity-rich environments.
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