OVERVIEW 2

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OVERVIEW     2
WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY?     2
THE GLOBAL CRISIS     3
THE CANADIAN CRISIS     4
THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE: BACKGROUND TO THE CONVENTION     6
THE CONVENTION     8
THE CANADIAN RESPONSE     10
CANADIAN BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY     11
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS     12
CANADIAN ACHIEVEMENTS     13
FEDERAL INITIATIVES     13
Initiatives Relating to Article 8 of the Convention     13
Initiatives Relating to Other Articles of the Convention     16
INTERNATIONAL/TRANSBOUNDARY     17
CONCLUSIONS     18
APPENDIX I ~ RATIFICATION LIST     21
APPENDIX II ~ NATIONAL REPORTS     23
APPENDIX III ~ ARTICLE 8     24
REFERENCES     25

Overview
In an effort to answer the research question ~ ‘what is the Biodiversity Convention, and what are its goals and successes to date,’ this paper will provide a look at the international biodiversity convention and Canada’s role and response to the process. Beginning with a definition of the term ‘biodiversity,’ the following sections will discuss the global and Canadian biodiversity crises. Because of the issue’s severity, responses were developed internationally and in Canada. These response measures, specifically the Biodiversity Convention, and the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, and the goals within them are shown. Next, discussion focuses on the international and Canadian achievements, in terms of implementing the Convention and in particular, Article 6. Canadian achievements are measured by looking at various legislation that support the conservation of biodiversity. In conclusion, the overall process is slowly successful, when the objective is for nations to develop and begin implementing strategies and action plans. The actual conservation of biodiversity is virtually impossible to measure.

What is Biodiversity?
In general, biological diversity, or biodiversity in short, refers to the number and variety of living organisms in the web of life on Earth. It is defined in terms of genes, species, and ecosystems that are the result of over 3,000 million years of evolution. In Article 2 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, “biological diversity” is defined as 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 a part; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems. These ecosystems are the species habitat, and different ecosystems contain different sets of species and ecosystem processes. Implied here is the understanding that the best

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