Background Information

Go4Biodiv

What does Go4Biodiv stand for? What does biodiversity mean to us? Find out more here

WHS Profiles 2010

Here you can find more information about the World Heritage sites represented at Go4BioDiv 2010.

Country Profiles 2008

In the presented country profiles you can find not only general facts about the countries that participated in the Youth Forum 2008, but also interesting facts and links concerning their biological and cultural diversity and about the Ecological Footprint each country has! more

Websites

• CBD-COP10: http://www.cbd.int/cop10/
• International Year of Biodiversity: http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/
• International Year of Youth: our year, our voice! http://social.un.org/youthyear/
• The World Heritage List with information on all sites: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
• European Commission on Biodiversity:
• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/campaign/index_en.htm
• World Heritage Facts and Figures:
• http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/wcpa_worldheritage/wcpa_whfacts/
• COP10 Promotion Committee: http://cop10.jp/aichi-nagoya/english/
• NGO network: http://www.biodiv-network.de/front_content.php?idcat=21

Downloads

• CBD- Convention: http://www.cbd.int/convention/convention.shtml
• Agenda COP10: http://www.cbd.int/cop10/agenda/
• Global Biodiversity Outlook No. 3 (GBO3): http://gbo3.cbd.int/
• World Heritage Information Kit: http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/567/
• IUCN Reports on World Heritage:
  http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/wcpa_worldheritage/wheritage_pub/wcpa_whstudies/
• gtz book on the Ecological Footprint and the International Youth Forum 2008: http://www.conservation-development.net/Projekte/Nachhaltigkeit/DVD_10_Footprint/files/pdf/zur_Serie/10_Footprint_en.pdf

• TEEB report: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: http://www.teebweb.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ubcryE0OUbw%3d

Videos

• We Are All in This Together:
  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/campaign/index_en.htm
• IUCN conservation and biodiversity videos:
  http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/multimedia/video/

Pictures

• of natural World Heritage Sites by IUCN:
  http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/wcpa_worldheritage/wcpa_whphoto/

Quiz and Maps

• Quiz on World Heritage by IUCN:
  http://cmsdata.iucn.org/custom/quiz/2010/worldheritage.htm

• World Heritage Interactive Map: http://whc.unesco.org/en/254/