(Source: IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare) The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a beast on its own, founded as one of the three UN "Rio Conventions" following the Earth Summit in Rio 1992. Now with 194 countries being Parties to CBD, the agreement is almost all inclusive, powerful and increasingly influential on every international and national biodiversity-related policy. It was created to protect world's biodiversity or at least halt further loss of its components, which at the time were already recognized as rapidly vanishing due to overexploitation and other environmental damaging practices. As if that challenge alone was not enough, CBD was tasked to achieve the...
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