Biodiversity global news 2010



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Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an independent platform which will in many ways mirror the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to be set up, 21 December

Mountain gorilla numbers up from 380 to 480 since 2003, 8 December

Tiger summit adopts global recovery program to double tiger numbers, 24 November

Monarch butterfly population down by as much as 60%, March 31

Asian ministers pledge to increase wild tiger numbers, January 31 Ministers from thirteen countries in Asia pledged on Friday to doubling the wild tiger population on the continent by 2022, to seven thousand.

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