2010 and all that—looking forward to biodiversity conservation in 2011 and beyond

Abstract

With the present penchant for turning dates into compound words for catchy headlines, next year rolls nicely off the tongue-twentyten. For conservationists twentyten will be a notable year: the 2010 Target of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 2009), the UN International Year of Biodiversity (UN, 2009) and the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (scheduled, perhaps fortuitously, for the 10th month of the year, in Japan). But what will all these matters mean for biodiversity conservation?