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Biodiversity

Biodiversity embraces the variety of genes, species and ecosystems that constitute life on Earth. We are currently witnessing a steady loss of biodiversity, with profound consequences for the natural world and for human wellbeing. The main causes are changes in natural habitats. These are due to intensive agricultural production systems, construction, quarrying, overexploitation of forests, oceans, rivers, lakes and soils, alien species invasions, pollution and — increasingly — global climate change.

Europe has set an ambitious target for halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Recent EEA assessments however concluded that the 2010 target will not be met.

2010 is the International Year for Biodiversity, the year of the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the year of new biodiversity targets at European and global level. More

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