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Biodiversity
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2010 International
Year of Biodiversity
The United Nations declared 2010 to
be the International Year of Biodiversity. "It is a celebration of life on
earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited
to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth:
biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential to sustaining the living networks
and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the
vital services our lives depend on. Human activity is causing the diversity
on Earth to be lost at a greatly accelerated rate. These losses are
irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely
on everyday. But we can prevent them." (Convention on Biological Diversity,
2010)
Useful Links
http://www.unep.org/tunza/children/
http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/
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What
is biodiversity?
"Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms - the different plants,
animals, fungi and micro-organisms, the genes they contain, and the
ecosystem of which they form a part. Biological diversity is considered at
three levels:
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genetic diversity - the variety of genetic information contained in all
of the individual plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms that inhabit
the earth. Genetic diversity occurs within and between the population
of organisms that comprise individual species as well as among species;
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species diversity - the variety of species on the earth; and
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ecosystem diversity - the variety of habitats, biotic communities and
ecological processes,"
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(The National Strategy for the
Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity 1996)
Understanding biodiversity at the forest is an important part of caring for
this special place.
Visit
our fauna, flora, fungi and wetlands pages to discover some of the great
biodiversity found at the forest.
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