Canadian Business and Biodiversity Council
Biodiversity Facts
The Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty created at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to conserve diversity, sustain biological use, and make sure benefits are shared equally.
Newfoundland and Labrador has some of the largest concentrations of seabirds in the world. The Witless Bay Seabird Ecological Reserve is home to the largest Atlantic puffin colony in North America, and the second largest Leach's storm-petrel colony in the world.
National Workshop
November 24, 2011
