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Why Is Biodiversity Important? Who Cares?
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by Anup Shah
This Page Last Updated Sunday, January 19, 2014
At least 40 per cent of the world’s economy and 80 per cent of the needs of the poor are derived from biological resources. In addition, the richer the diversity of life, the greater the opportunity for medical discoveries, economic development, and adaptive responses to such new challenges as climate change.
The Convention about Life on Earth, Convention on Biodiversity web site.
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What is Biodiversity?
Why is Biodiversity Important?
A healthy biodiversity offers many natural services
Species depend on each other
Soil, bacteria, plants; the Nitrogen Cycle
Bees: crucial agricultural workers
Interdependent marine ecosystem
Large carnivores essential for healthy ecosystems
Interdependency vs Human Intervention
Biodiversity providing lessons for scientists in engineering
More important than human use or biological interest
Putting an economic value on biodiversity
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What is Biodiversity?
The variety of life on Earth, its biological diversity is commonly referred to as biodiversity.
The number of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, the enormous diversity of genes in these species, the different ecosystems on the planet, such as deserts, rainforests and coral reefs are all part of a biologically diverse Earth.
Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach to preserving biodiversity. Almost all cultures have their roots in our biological diversity in some way or form.
Declining biodiversity is therefore a concern for many reasons.