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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.
The Earth seen from Apollo 17.The first International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated 28 years after the mission. The International Day for Biological Diversity (or World Biodiversity Day) is a United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues.
10–30 million insects; [21] (of some 0.9 million we know today) [22] 5–10 million bacteria; [23] 1.5-3 million fungi, estimates based on data from the tropics, long-term non-tropical sites and molecular studies that have revealed cryptic speciation. [24] Some 0.075 million species of fungi had been documented by 2001; [25] 1 million mites [26]
The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica. Created at the end of the 1980s, and despite having national status, it is a privately run institution that works closely with various government agencies, universities, business sector and other public and private entities ...
Biomuseo is located in Amador, also known as Causeway, at the south entrance of the Panama Canal.Visitors can get there via taxi or bus. Frank Gehry's Biomuseum viewed from aboard ship close to the south end of the Panama Canal Frank Gehry's Biomuseum