CBD Thematic reports

Mountain Biodiversity

- The world's mountains encompass some of the most spectacular landscapes, a great diversity of species and habitat types, and distinctive human communities. Mountain ecosystems are important for biological diversity, and host some of the world's most complex agro-cultural gene pools and traditional management practices. Since mountains include other ecosystem types, such as forests and inland waters, mountain biodiversity is cross-cutting in nature and all the other articles of the Convention and many decisions apply to mountain biological diversity. At its seventh meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted a programme of work on mountain biological diversity as a set of actions addressing characteristics and problems that are specific to mountain ecosystems.

Egypt 3rd National Report -- Mountain Biodiversity [Arabic]

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Convention Progress in Addressing Mountain Biodiversity

- Up to date information on overall progress in addressing Mountain Biodiversity is available on the CBD website, including introductory information, relevant COP decisions, the Programme of Work on Mountain Biodiversity, thematic reports on mountain ecosystems, and documents.

URL: http://www.biodiv.org/programmes/areas/mountain/default.asp