Biodiversity

ISSUES

Biodiversity

Signed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Convention on Biological Diversity defines biodiversity as « the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems, the ecological complexes and diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems».
Interdependance
In every ecosystem, living creatures including humans interact with one another as well as with the air, water and earth. Due to global warming – which leads to the displacement of species in both space and time (annual blooming seasons, for example) – and the disappearance of certain species, 60% of inter-species interaction has been eliminated (IUCN estimates, 2006). The more species there are in a functional group, the less vulnerable that group; a change in one of its components can affect the entire system. Inversely, saving one particular species requires ensuring that the entire ecosystem...

NEWS

Przewalski's horses roaming China's plains again

Don't call it mud: Life found deep beneath ocean floor

Pressure on N. Zealand to save world's rarest dolphin

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DEBATES

Loss and Degradation of Natural Habitats Threaten Migratory Bird

UNEP

World Migratory Bird Day 2013 Highlights Importance of Ecological Networks for Migratory Birds, Need for a Greater International...

Wild and precious

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Now, the tragedy of the common species

India needs to shed its blinkers and recognise that the...

FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

06/06/2013	'On Borrowed Time', launched in conjunction with World Tiger Day 2011,...	05/06/2013	The Lord's Resistance Army, lead by Josep Kony, is a militant movement...
28/05/2013	The Great British summer is finally on the way...according to ZSL London...	15/05/2013	2012 was the deadliest year for rhinos since record-taking began....

GREEN TIPS

Hedges in Aveyron

The respect for biodiversity sometimes means going back to traditional methods, especially where agriculture...

INDICATORS

Biocapacity
National biodiversity index
Threatened ecosystems
Protected areas

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