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Mountain Biodiversity
Water towers of the world

The world’s mountains encompass some of the most spectacular landscapes, a great diversity of species and habitat types, and distinctive human communities. Mountains occur on all continents, in all latitude zones, and within all the world’s principal biome types. Mountains provide freshwater for more than half of humanity, and are, in effect, the water towers of the world. More »

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10 December 2009
Message by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Mountain Day 2009. More »
11 December 2008
Food Security in Mountains, Message by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of International Mountain Day, 11 December 2008. More »
16 November 2008
Message from the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, to the International Mountain Biodiversity Conference on “Biodiversity Conservation and Management for Enhanced Ecosystem Services: Responding to the Challenges of Global Change”, Kathmandu, Nepal, 16-18 November 2008. More »