Biodiversity is life in all its rich variety
The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. Biological diversity is the basis of all life. At a UN conference in 1992 Switzerland signed the biodiversity convention, obliging it to combat the extinction of species around the world. (Picture editor: Rolf Amiet)
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