IUCN COMMISSION GROUP

IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force

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Overview and description

Description:
The Tree of Life is a storehouse of potential benefits to humanity and protecting it ensures that we protect these benefits into the future. The PDTF seeks to promote the importance of conserving ...
The Tree of Life is a storehouse of potential benefits to humanity and protecting it ensures that we protect these benefits into the future. The PDTF seeks to promote the importance of conserving phylogenetic diversity, and so the tree of life and our evolutionary heritage, enhancing the understanding and wider adoption of phylogenetic diversity in conservation among conservation practitioners, decision-makers, business, the academic community and the public.

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Official name:
IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force
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