Marine Biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) on May 22. Designation of IDB 2012 on the theme of marine ecosystems provides
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and everyone interested in marine life, the opportunity to raise awareness of the issue and increase practical action.
From 2000 to 2010, an unprecedented worldwide collaboration by a global community of scientists set out to try and determine how much life is in the oceans.
By the time the Census ended, about 250,000 species were identified. In its final report, the Census team suggested it could be at least a million. There are those that believe the figure could be twice as high.
For more info see:
http://www.cbd.int/idb/2012/
Images by Mike Leveille
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