Biodiversity

• Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis (2005) [pdf 892kb]
  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Global Environment Outlook: environment for development
  (GEO-4) assessment is a comprehensive and authoritative UN report on environment, development and human well-being, providing incisive analysis and information for decision making.
• GEO4: Chapter 5 Biodiversity (2007) [pdf 1.96Mb]
  Global overview describing biodiversity as a key pillar of ecologically sustainable development, providing a synthesis of the latest information on the state-and-trends of global biodiversity.
• The Contribution of Protected Areas to Human Health (2010) [pdf 6.23Mb]
  Research report by WWF and Equilibrium Research assembles evidence about the positive benefits for human health that can be provided by protecting biodiversity and the environment.
• WHO Guideline on good agricultural and collection practices of traditional medicines (2003) [pdf 592kb]