A number of delegations commented on the issue of high seas biodiversity.

102. Conservation of biodiversity ranks high on the international agenda for sustainable development.

184 The Fisheries Resources Monitoring System is expected to monitor the state of high seas biodiversity.

Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, the park combines high species diversity and visibility.

We need a constructive debate that will help define the options we face in protecting high seas biodiversity.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity resources

The Biodiversity Bargain

Instruments addressing biodiversity

6. Biodiversity resources.

f. Biodiversity resources

(i) Biodiversity resources

(h) Biodiversity resources

(d) Biodiversity resources

Biodiversity Convention Subtotal

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

(i) Conserving island biodiversity

J. Conservation of biodiversity

Management of biodiversity

We are looking forward to a successful meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Informal Working Group on biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction, which we hope will improve our collective knowledge on the issue of high seas biodiversity.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

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B. Natural resources and biodiversity

Seamounts are important for biodiversity.

The pelagic and benthic environments are high in biodiversity,5 suggesting a greater number of species exist in the sea than on land.

Australia has been a longstanding champion of high seas biodiversity conservation and is seriously concerned about the impact of a range of human activities on the vulnerable ecosystems of the high seas.

In 2004, the Legal and Technical Committee discussed the role of the International Seabed Authority in relation to the management of high seas biodiversity.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

(i) Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

G. Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

(g) Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

G. Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

These guidelines should be followed in assessing and proposing mitigation measures for any tourism development in areas of high biodiversity, within or outside protected areas.

This proposal is being developed as a matter of high priority because of a major threat to the biodiversity of the area through large scale logging.

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity.

Mr. Merle Alexander (Canadian Indigenous Biodiversity Network)

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(a) Biodiversity conservation in the South Pacific

1995 G. Land, desertification, forests and biodiversity

C. Conventions on climate change and biodiversity

I like the term biodiversity of resistance .