What is Biodiversity ?

Why it's under threat and why it matters

Report by way of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reported 1 million animal and plant species are actually threatened with extinction—the very best quantity in human records. 

Three-quarters of the land-primarily based environment and more or less 66% of the sea surroundings have been notably altered. More than a third of the sector's land floor and almost 75% of freshwater sources are now committed to crop or cattle manufacturing. Climate alternate worsens the effect of different stressors on nature and our nicely-being. Humans have overfished the oceans, cleared forests, polluted our water assets, and created a weather crisis. These moves are impacting biodiversity around the arena, from the most far off locales to our very own backyards.

Pygmy elephant Juan Carlos Munoz

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