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"The botanists tell us that this district has a greater variety of blossoms than any other spot in the world. Trees and shrubs are in blossom the whole year round, a constant succession, in endless variety."
Marion Mahony Griffin: The Magic of America: The Municipal Battle - A Castlecrag home in a Castlecrag Gully (#:III.101)
In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, addressed biological diversity in Chapter IV, paragraph 44, of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. The Johannesburg Summit also endorsed the target to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and national levels as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth, which had some months earlier been adopted by the sixth meeting of the CBD Conference of Parties (COP).- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Biodiversity/Biological Diversity
Biodiversity is the variety of life: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Australia is one of the most diverse countries on the planet. It is home to more than one million species of plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.- Australia's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010-2020
The Ducie collection contains 56 watercolours attributed to George Raper, a midshipman on the flag ship 'Sirius', and one of the most talented First Fleet artists. They show the birds and flowers of the Port Jackson area as Raper saw them between 1788 and 1790.- The Ducie collection of First Fleet art
Noisy Miner feeding on Grevillea in Traffic Island
Photo Marghanita da Cruz 3 February 2009.
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