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biodiversity

the variety of plant and animal life in a particular area. Environmentalists have expressed concern about the extent to which ECONOMIC GROWTH, in particular modern methods of farming, forestry and manufacturing, has reduced biodiversity, with some plant and animal species becoming rare or extinct. See POLLUTION.

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Furthermore, Mr Botsoma said Botswana was committed to biodiversity.

Bio-diversity important to economy

In October 2010, global leaders met in Aichi, Japan, where they produced the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, which included 20 ambitious targets-such as halving global habitat loss and ending overfishing-that signatories agreed to meet by 2020.

Sounding the alarm on biodiversity loss

For the first time, we can now provide financial assistance for small enterprises in coastal communities that focus on the conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity,' Lim said.

DENR earmarks P25 million to jump-start biodiversity projects in coastal areas

The projects examine global-scale gradients in biodiversity and the eco-evolutionary feedbacks between coexisting species and their environments in new and transformative ways.

United States : NSF awards $14.7 million for research to deepen understanding of Earths biodiversity

Theme of this year Biodiversity celebration was Mainstreaming Biodiversity, Sustaining people and their livelihood .

Conservation biodiversity vital for mankind survival

To address these threats, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Biodiversity Financing Initiative (BioFin) and other parties, has developed the Philippines Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP).

PH needs to invest P335 billion over 13 years to conserve biodiversity

Rai Niaz Ahmad emphasized on the importance of biodiversity and said that pragmatic solution to cope with the challenges posed to biodiversity must be adopted so to conserve it for future generations and protect the environment also.

Biodiversity conservation emphasized at PMAS-AAUR

Biodiversity and ecosystem services' key importance of achieving the vision represented in creating a safe world where water is available.

ahrain marks International Day for Biological Diversity

They found that while press attention devoted to biodiversity has remained stable since 1990, the proportion of climate change reports has been substantially higher than biodiversity since 2005.

Attention deficit disorder

I am convinced that local authorities have a key role to play in conserving biodiversity, through their role in: developing and influencing local policies and strategies; planning and development control; owning and managing their land; procurement; education and awareness raising.

Local authorities' key role in biodiversity; Views of Wales

Accordingly, in this study, we ask two questions: (1) How different are the horizontal linkages created in the biodiversity cluster from those emerging at the level of national implementation?

Regime complexes and national policy coherence: experiences in the biodiversity cluster

The four-day workshop began at Wyndham Grand Regency-Hotel on Saturday under the auspices of Minister of Environment HE Ahmed bin Amer al Humaidi and in collaboration with International Biodiversity Agreement Secretariat and UNEP office for West Asia.