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

Box 1: Plant Diversity: Kupe-Bakossi (Source: H. Beentje)