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As this issue went to press, thousands of decision makers were gathering in Nagoya, Japan for the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – with a goal of formulating a strategy to reduce current pressures on the planet’s biodiversity.

Biodiversity has numerous definitions, many of them complex and scientific. The definition from the Canadian Biodiversity Information Network, however, sums it up nicely: “Biodiversity encompasses all living species on Earth and