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ECOLOGY: The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target
Andrew Balmford, Leon Bennun, Ben ten Brink, David Cooper, Isabelle M. Côté, Peter Crane, Andrew Dobson,* Nigel Dudley, Ian Dutton, Rhys E. Green, Richard D. Gregory, Jeremy Harrison, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Claire Kremen, Nigel Leader-Williams, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Georgina Mace, Robert May, Phillipe Mayaux, Paul Morling, Joanna Phillips, Kent Redford, Taylor H. Ricketts, Jon Paul Rodríguez, M. Sanjayan, Peter J. Schei, Albert S. van Jaarsveld, Bruno A. Walther
Governments are often accused of responding only to short-term and parochial considerations. It is therefore remarkable that representatives of 190 countries recently committed themselves at the Convention on Biological Diversity to reducing biodiversity loss. This presents conservation biologists with perhaps their greatest challenge of the decade. The authors of this Policy Forum describe approaches to identifying more of the earth's biological diversity; understanding how biological, geophysical, and geochemical processes interact; and presenting scientific knowledge in time to contribute to and achieve the 2010 target.
Author affiliation in order listed: Cambridge University and University of Cape Town; BirdLife International; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (RIVM); Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat; University of East Anglia; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Princeton University; Equilibrium; The Nature Conservancy; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Cambridge University; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Conservation International; Princeton University; University of Kent; Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Zoological Society of London; Oxford University; European Commission (EC) Joint Research Center; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (twice); Wildlife Conservation Society; World Wildlife Fund, USA; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Diversitas and Fridtjof Nansen Institute; The Nature Conservancy; Stellenbosch University; Cambridge University. The views expressed in this article are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations to which they are affiliated.
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: dobber{at}princeton.edu
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