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Biosphere Reserves: Fact Sheet (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Oct. 3, 1997
Report Number 96-517
Authors Susan R. Fletcher, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

"Biosphere Reserve" is a term denoting an area that has been nominated by the locality and the country in which it is located for participation in the worldwide Biosphere Reserve Program under the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB), and accepted for such recognition by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Areas are nominated and recognized on the basis of their significance for research and study of representative biological regions of the world.