An introduction to the International Biodiversity Observation Year(IBOY)
"国际生物多样性观察年"(IBOY)介绍

The program of the International Biodiversity Observation Year is un derway by DIVERSITAS to study integratedly on the status of global biodiversity in all of its dimensions. The main objects of the program are: promoting the pub lic to understand the status and the future of global biodiversity, pushing forw ard and perfecting the subject of Biodiversity and providing the scientific basi s for policy decisions. DIVERSITAS attempts to understand what do we have in ter ms of global biodiversity, how much global biodiversity have we lost, why are we losing global biodiversity, what implications do these biodiversity losses have for us, how do we conserve and maintain the biodiversity that we have, what can we do to improve the biodiversity that we have, and how can we integrate and as sess the total picture of global biodiversity. Some proposals for the undergoing of the program were also briefly introduced in this paper.