What will the loss of biodiversity mean to Africas population?
William Darwall, manager of the IUCN’s freshwater biodiversity unit (Species Programme), revises the recent outcomes of the freshwater biodiversity assessment of continental Africa and explains how these data can be used to inform developers and policy makers. In the face of increasing land development in the area, the project delivers important conclusions and provides useful information that will cover a gap of knowledge on freshwater systems.