Expert answer:What is the Convention on Biological Diversity (CB

  

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(Q1) (i) What is the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)?
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(ii)
What are its goals?
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(iii)
How many countries have signed up to it? Which countries have not?
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(Q2) (i)
Approximately what proportion of the nearly 6000 amphibians known to science is
currently threatened with extinction?
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(ii)How can alkaloids found in frog
skins such as pumiliotoxins and epibatidine contribute to medicine?
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(iii) Amphibians are currently being
studied with regard to regeneration and body-freezing. Briefly explain each
phenomenon and state how such research might contribute to biomedical research.
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(Q3) (i)
Describe the basic differences in methods of data collection in the three
ethnobotanical studies we discussed in class: Schultes&Raffauf (1990) in
the Northwest Amazon; Smith (1991) in Northern Australia; and Yorim, Korape,
Legu, Koch, Barrows, Matainaho, & Rai (2012) in Papua.
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(ii)
How do you think differences in method affected the quality of their data?
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(Q4) (i)
According to Maffi& Woodley (2010), in what ways might humans have
traditionally acted as biodiversity-enhancing agents?
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(ii) On considering their analysis
of the projects, how is loss of language interrelated with loss of
biodiversity, and how is language revitalization connected to biodiversity
conservation?
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