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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, biodiversity indicates a measure of the variety of animal and plant species in the biosphere: it is the result of long evolutionary processes.
Evolution is the mechanism which, for over 3 billion years, has allowed life to adapt to changing conditions on the Earth and which must continue to function so that it can support forms of life in the future. It should be understood not only as the result of evolutionary processes, but also as the reserve tank upon which evolution draws in order to bring about all the genetic and morphological changes which give rise to new living species.
Biodiversity is the life insurance policy for our planet, so its conservation must be pursued without limits since it amounts to a universal heritage which can offer immediate advantages for mankind, such as the maintenance of climatic balances, both in local and planetary terms, as a source of material to be studied which allows us to gain fundamental knowledge in order to understand biological mechanisms which are similar in humans, or the sustainable use of flora and fauna for food and medicinal purposes.
Quite rightly, its conservation is one of the European objectives after 2010, the year of biodiversity."@en1
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