A portion First Gen's donation was used to fund research on the implications for Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation in the provinces of Visayas and Mindanao where tarsiers have been found to live.

The document, the Global Biodiversity Assessment (Cambridge University Press, $44.95), is being described by the United Nations as the first comprehensive, peer-reviewed report ever to examine earth's biodiversity.

Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka): A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system.

Gaonkar, Harish (1996), "Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (Including Sri Lanka)-A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System," Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.

Gaonkar, Harish (1996) "Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (Including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System."

His publications include several major books including Flowering Plants of the World, and its update Flowering Plant Families of the World (with Richard K. Brummitt, Alastair Culham and Ole Seberg) as well as the Global Biodiversity Assessment.

Cultural and spiritual values of biodiversity: a complementary contribution to the Global Biodiversity Assessment.

These findings also contributed to the Global Biodiversity Assessment, an initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI), and to the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), established in 1992, and with which Diversitas has a Memorandum of Understanding.