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Background
The biodiversity framework
In June 1992, the UN Convention on Biological DiversityiBiological diversity, shortened to biodiversity, is the term given to the variety of living things on earth. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) definition of biodiversity is: Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems. was signed by the United Kingdom and 158 other countries at the Earth Summit, which took place in Rio de Janeiro ("the Rio Convention").