News Headline
The value of a biodiversity management and action plan
Source
Engineering News
Publication Date
2022-07-04
A growing awareness of the implications of the loss of biodiversity resulted in the establishment of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the 1992 United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Earth Summit. Since its inception over 196 countries, including South Africa, have or are in the process of ratifying the Convention making the biodiversity of biological resources a key priority to eventually achieving sustainable development on an international scale.