Brand / Publisher: National Geographic Society.

Item: Vintage 1999 Millennium in Maps Biodiversity world map supplement from National Geographic Magazine, featuring a themed global survey of biodiversity and species richness under the main map title Diversity of Life.

Country of origin: United States.

Format: Large double-sided color paper sheet folding to a tall poster-style brochure; primary side titled Diversity of Life presents a world map with shaded biomes and habitat regions, regional biodiversity notes, and detailed illustrations of representative animals and plants, accompanied by inset maps showing global plant productivity patterns.

Reverse side headed Millennium in Maps Biodiversity combines a cylindrical-projection world map of land cover and human population with comparative bar graphs and pie charts for species diversity by region, narrative panels on diversity of life, rapid extinctions and slow recoveries, threats to biodiversity, conservation and research priorities, habitat fragmentation, and medicinal plants and animals.

Credits identify production by National Geographic Maps for National Geographic Magazine with copyright 1999 National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., printed December 1998 and dated February 1999; scale 1:50,409,400 or 1 inch = 854 miles at the equator, suitable for wall display, classroom reference, or addition to a collection of National Geographic environmental and science cartography ephemera.