Meaning of biodiversity

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Biodiversity means the natural diversity of biological resources, together with the environmental conditions necessary for their survival, and includes the diversity of:

(a) the landforms, soils and water of a region, and the functional relationships that affect environmental conditions within ecosystems (called regional diversity); and

(b) the different types of communities formed by living organisms and the relations between them (called ecosystem diversity); and

(c)

species (called species diversity); and

(d)

genes within each species (called genetic diversity).

This Act’s bill:Explanatory statement Second reading speech

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7 Meaning of biodiversity