Airbus is helping fund a cherished project of the secretariat of the UN Convention on Biodiversity to educate young people across the world about the virtues of biodiversity, called the Green Wave Initiative.
She and others studying climate's effects on biodiversity are calling for conservation measures that don't rely on impossible precision.
The group has since updated the terminology surrounding biodiversity, now calling it "biosphere integrity," but that hasn't spared it from critique.
The report blames governments for failing to live up to the 1992 Convention on Biodiversity, which called for a "significant reduction" in biodiversity loss by 2010.
Participants adopted the Hyderabad Declaration on Subnational Governments, Cities and other Local Authorities for Biodiversity, which supports the work of cities to achieve the Global Strategy for Biodiversity and calls for greater coordination between levels of government (more info here).
The section, Biodiversity and DNA barcoding, then links all these issues to the controversies surrounding an emerging area of biodiversity assessment, called "DNA barcoding".
Biodiversity, also called biological diversity, the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth.
The study used a relatively new global biodiversity database called Predicts (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems), which contains field data from hundreds of scientists documenting how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts.
Starting our research here at the south end of Discovery Passage, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, fjord-laden with omnipresent mist and low clouds through the treetops of coastal western hemlock rain forest (yes, it's wet), we're here to find out how human communities can develop in ways that are nourishing to the biodiversity that calls a place home.
In 2010 the British government created the BIOT Marine Protected Area MPAA) to conserve the unique biodiversity that called this region home, including several pelagic and reef shark species that use the sheltered atolls as nursery grounds or allow juveniles to start out life in the safe lagoons.
