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source: www.biodiversityhotspots.org

http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/
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concept impact
The impact of the hotspots concept* in terms of investment in conservation has been dramatic…

  • more than US$750 million is estimated to have been devoted to saving hotspots over the last 15 years, perhaps the largest financial investment in any single conservation strategy;


  • the hotspots concept has also entered the mainstream as a tool for private sector businesses. For example, Office Depot explicitly gives preference to pulp and paper vendors that protect natural forests in the biodiversity hotspots and high-biodiversity wilderness areas

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* The hotspots concept was pioneered in 1988 by British ecologist Norman Myers, who recognised that hotspot ecosystems (most often in tropical forest areas) cover a small total land area yet account for a very high percentage of global biodiversity. The concept was subsequently refined by Myers and Conservation International (CI), most recently in 2000.

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