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More than any other place on Earth, the Galápagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830's.

The report gives an account of Ireland's natural heritage or biodiversity, starting with the legislative framework designed to protect it, and presents a brief portrait of some of the contry's more important habitats and elements of her flora and fauna.

The reduction of world poverty is a major challenge for the international community over the next decade. It is increasingly clear that the our capacity to successfully achieve this objective will be undermined if the natural resource base for development is threatened.

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As áreas protegidas, ou unidades de conservação, são a forma mais corriqueiramente adotada por muitos países para a conservação da natureza. Embora o Brasil não fuja a essa regra, nem sempre a boa intenção tem resultado em boa prática.