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  2. ComisiĆ³n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad

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    The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO; English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992.

  3. El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve

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    El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] managed by the federal government of Mexico, specifically by Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the state governments of Sonora and the Tohono O'odham.

  4. Key Biodiversity Area - Wikipedia

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    Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) are geographical regions that have been determined to be of international importance in terms of biodiversity conservation, using globally standardized criteria published by the IUCN as part of a collaboration between scientists, conservation groups, and government bodies across the world. [1]

  5. Convention on Biological Diversity - Wikipedia

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    The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.The Convention has three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity); the sustainable use of its components; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.

  6. Biodiversity Heritage Library - Wikipedia

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    The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open ...

  7. Global biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Insects make up the vast majority of animal species. [14]Chapman, 2005 and 2009 [9] has attempted to compile perhaps the most comprehensive recent statistics on numbers of extant species, drawing on a range of published and unpublished sources, and has come up with a figure of approximately 1.9 million estimated described taxa, as against possibly a total of between 11 and 12 million ...

  8. Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation - Wikipedia

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    The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm. [1] It is named after the environmental activist Chico Mendes.

  9. Urban ecology - Wikipedia

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    Central Park represents an ecosystem fragment within a larger urban environment.. Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment.