Environment
Biodiversity Hotspots Life on Earth faces a crisis of historical and planetary proportions. Unsustainable consumption in many northern countries and crushing poverty in the tropics are destroying wild nature. Biodiversity is besieged.(more) http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/hotspots/Pages/default.aspx Biodiversity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Biodiversity” is often defined as the variety of all forms of life, from genes to species, through to the broad scale of ecosystems (for a list of variants on this simple definition see Gaston 1996). "Biodiversity" was coined as a contraction of "biological diversity" in 1985, but the new term arguably has taken on a meaning and import all its own. A symposium in 1986, and the follow-up book BioDiversity (Wilson 1988), edited by biologist E. O. Wilson, heralded the popularity of this concept(more) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biodiversity/ Conservation management system - Wikipedia, the f...