Describe International Initiatives for Conservation of Biodiversity

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$\rightarrow$ Biodiversity conservation is a collective responsibility of all the nation.

Convention on Biological Diversity (The Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janerio in $1992$ called upon all the nations to take initiative in biodiversity conservation.

In a follow up World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in $2002$ in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In this $190$ countries made commitments to significantly reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and local levels by $ 2010$ .

In $2012$, the United Nations conference on Sustainable Development was again held at Rio and is called Rio  $+ 20$ or Rio Earth Summit $ 2012$ .

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