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… communities in the world. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, for example, supports 1,500 species of fish and up to 8,000 … as worms and small shellfish contained in the mud provide food for internationally important populations of migratory … wetlands, meaning they are found nowhere else on Earth. S Genetic variation – safeguarding the variety of life in …

… Andrew W. Tordoff Peter Valentine, Series Editor Targets for Comprehensive Protected Area Systems Id entification and … benefit to humanity. Most directly, it comprises a vast genetic storehouse of medicines, foods and fibers (Myers … amongst stakeholders (scientists, government agencies, resource users, NGOs and donors) and a sense of ownership of …