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About UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre is the biodiversity assessment and biodiversity policy support arm of the United Nations Environment Programme, the world's foremost intergovernmental environmental organization. The Centre has been in operation for over 25 years, providing objective, scientifically rigorous products and services to help decision makers recognize the value of biodiversity and apply this knowledge to all that they do. The Centre’s core business is managing data about ecosystems and biodiversity, interpreting and analysing that data to provide assessments and policy analysis, and making the results available to both national and international decision makers and businesses.
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Example species:
Argentine Black and White Tegu (Tupinambis merianae) © Wolfgang Wuster
Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) © Mario Lutz
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) © Peter Dollinger
Reticulated Python (Python Reticulatus) ©2005 John White