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| 'Project Genesis' |
| This site takes the form of a questionnaire and an interactive game - 'Project Genesis' - designed to assess how much young people know about biodiversity. The site has been developed with the aim of getting them (especially 11-17 year olds) more actively involved in biodiversity. |
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| BARS information system |
| The Biodiversity Action Reporting System (BARS) supports the planning, monitoring and reporting requirements of national, local and company Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs). Go to this site to learn about the progress being made with local and national BAPs. |
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| BBCi Global Top Ten |
| Explore some of the key environmental challenges of the day. Includes information on biodiversity. |
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| Biodiversity Challenge |
| Biodiversity Challenge is a group of voluntary organisations, which come together to influence the implementation of the Biodiversity Action Plan. These organisations include: Butterfly Conservation, RSPB, Plantlife, Friends of the Earth, The Wildlife Trusts and WWWF-UK. |
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| Biodiversity is life |
| The World Conservation Union has launched an innovative public website entitled "Biodiversity is life". It is devised to allow a wide audience to access vital information on the conservation of biodiversity. |
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| Business and Biodiversity Resource Centre |
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| Convention on Biological Diversity |
| At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agreed on a comprehensive strategy for "Sustainable Development". One of the key agreements adopted at Rio was the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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| Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative |
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| Countdown 2010 |
| The goal of Countdown is that all European governments, at every level, have taken the necessary actions to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. This website provides full information about this initiative.
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| Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens |
| Community-led and managed projects working with people, animals and plants |
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| Global Biodiversity Information facility (GBIF) |
| GBIF will be an interoperable network of biodiversity databases and information technology tools that will enable users to navigate and to put to use the world�s vast quantities of biodiversity information. |
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| Go wild on Wight |
| Wild on Wight is the website of the Isle of Wight Biodiversity Partnership. |
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| IUCN - World Conservation Union |
| World Conservation Union helps influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. |
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| london.gov.uk |
| london.gov.uk is the official website for the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority. The Mayor's proposals for promoting and protecting biodiversity in London are set out in his biodiversity strategy. The full biodiversity strategy document is available for downloading. |
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| Natural Shropshire |
| The Natural Shropshire web site is maintained by the Shropshire Biodiversity Partnership. It is an interactive web site allowing contributions from members of the partnership.
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| Peak District Biodiversity Action Plan |
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| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Go Wild |
Go Wild, Kew�s summer festival for 2003, turned the spotlight on the splendour of Britain�s wild species. The festival demonstrated the interdependence of plants, animals and humans upon one another, and showed the irreplaceable beauty of Britain�s biodiversity. Through special features, exhibitions and art installations, Go Wild showed the conservation message at the heart of Kew�s work.
Although the festival ran in 2003, the website has been kept to give visitors access to the wealth of information developed to support the festival. |
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| Scottish Biodiversity Group |
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| UK Biodiversity |
| The UK BAP site aims to support the implementation of the UK Biodiversity Acton Plan and the partnership involved in biodiversity conservation. |
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| Wales Biodiversity Group |
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| West Midlands Biodiversity Partnership |
| The Partnership helps people to meet the challenge of caring for the region's wildlife by protecting important species and habitats, replacing past losses and making new provisions. They support survey and recording, give advice to land owners and managers and work with policy and decision-makers. |
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| Wildlife in Cumbria |
| The website of the Cumbria Biodiversity Partnership, an organisation made up of national and local government bodies, conservation charities, businesses and rural interests, which was set up to co-ordinate the production of a Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for Cumbria. |
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| Yorkshire and Humber Region Biodiversity Forum |
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