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Business: Global Partner in Biodiversity Conservation

There are 5 million to 30 million distinct species on Earth, the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) said. Humankind’s prosperity and survival depends on benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems and the species living in them. Collectively, these benefits are known as ecosystem services. These services were formally described by the United Nations Millennium 2005 Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year study involving more than 1,300 scientists worldwide. Read More