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International Biodiversity Day

Today, saturday 22 May 2010 is the International Day for Biological Diversity. The United Nations proclaimed 22 May The International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity. In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as International Day for Biological Diversity, to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This was partly done because it was difficult for many countries to plan and carry out suitable celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays that coincide around that time of year.

On the occasion of the International Biodiversity Day, the European Environment Agency will inaugurate a unique living façade of the Agency on 22 May. Their building on Kongens Nytorv 6 in Copenhagen will be covered from May to October 2010 by about 5,000 plants drawing a map of the plant diversity in Europe.

http://www.cbd.int/idb/
http://www.eea.europa.eu/events/22may

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