Biodiversity offers multiple opportunities for development and improving human well-being.

• Introduction
• Inventory of resources
• Species richness and endemism
• Centres of biodiversity
• Ecosystem change and conservation
• Endowments and opportunities
• Environmental goods
• Environmental services
• Nature-based tourism
• Further reading
• Figures
• Box 1

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Figures

- Biodiversity in Africa

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Figure 1: Distribution of biodiversity

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Figure 2: Global diversity of amphibians (Source: GAA 2004)

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Figure 3: Plant and vertebrate diversity (Source: Küper and others 2004/Zoological Museum (Fjeldsa and others 2004)

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Women collecting NTFPs in a forest, Cameroon. (Source: J. Nguieburi/CIFOR)

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Prunus africana is a valuable medicinal plant, Cameroon. (Source: O. Ndoye/CIFOR)

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Africa's biodiversity is remarkably intact. Miombo woodlands in eastern Zimbabwe. (Source: Y. Katerere)

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