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- Freshwater Biodiversity: A Preliminary Global Assessment - This document provides information on inland waters and their biodiversity, and includes the first global assessment of areas of special importance for freshwater biodiversity, based on expert opinion and data. It also includes a first comparative analysis of major river basins, using indicators of biodiversity, the condition of catchment basins and pressures on water resources, in order to generate indices of importance and risk. (FTP site).
- Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity - This UPWARD three-volume publication is a global compilation by scientists, development specialists, academics, policy-makers and donors. Vol. 1: understanding agricultural biodiversity, Vol. 2: strengthening local management of agricultural biodiversity, and Vol. 3: ensuring an enabling environment for agricultural biodiversity. PDF downloads of all 75 chapters available.
- Biodiversity Conservation Information System - A partnership of major international organisations involved with biodiversity and conservation. Aiming to provide conservationists, government officials and others with access to important information about conservation of biodiversity.
- Biodiversity and Its Value: Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 1 - Outlines what biodiversity is, and the three levels at which it is usually defined: genetic, species and ecosystem.
- Australia's Biodiversity - Defines biodiversity, and the threats to, and conservation of, Australia's biodiversity.
- Spanish Biodiversity Platform - European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy. Bioplatform meeting, Almerķa (Spain) 11-13 May 2002. "European heritage under threat: Biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems". Background documents, program, registration details.
- Biodiversity Economics - Explores the economic dimensions of the global biodiversity agenda as reflected in the work of IUCN and the various biodiversity conventions, notably the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Biodiversity in Belgium - Fauna, flora, in-situ conservation and ex-situ conservation.
- Resources for the Future Library: Biodiversity - Research papers (PDF files) and project summaries related to economic and policy aspects of biodiversity protection. Topics include ecosystem valuation, endangered species laws, and habitat conservation.
- FAO portal on Aquatic Biodiversity - Provides definitions of types of aquatic ecosystems commonly used by capture fisheries and aquaculture in which aquatic biodiversity needs to be maintained; also refers to policies such as Code of Conduct on Responsible Fisheries, FAO programmes and links to key papers and related sites.
Wikipedia Articles
- Sarawak Biodiversity Centre - In 1997, the Sarawak State Government enacted the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre Ordinance and set up the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) the following year to initiate programmes for the conservation, utilization, protection and sustainable development of biodiversity in the State. The State Government also enacted the Sarawak Biodiversity Regulations in Year 1998.
- Biodiversity Convention Office - Canada's Biodiversity Convention Office (BCO) Biodiversity Convention Office serves as National Focal Point for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity UN CBD National Focal Points and the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy. BCO also provides a leadership role in the Biodiversity Conservation Working Group of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and in the Conservation ...
- Biodiversity Outcomes Framework - Canada's Biodiversity Outcomes FrameworkBiodiversity Outcomes Framework was approved by Ministers responsible for Environment, Forests, Parks, Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Wildlife in October 2006. It has been developed further to the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, an implementation measure required under Article 6 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Biodiversity - Biodiversity is the variation of taxonomic life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems.
- Economics of biodiversity - There have been a number of economic arguments advanced regarding evaluation of the benefits of biodiversity. Most are anthropocentric but economists have also debated whether biodiversity is inherently valuable, independent of benefits to human.