Biodiversity

Plants, Animals, Land, Weather and the atmosphere sustain the planet’s ecosystems and thus they help maintain our health and livelihoods. Biodiversity is Life, the world, the variation of life for the entire globe.

By using up our natural resources at a very fast pace, we are posing a great threat to species, habitats and the community in general.

Biodiversity has an impact on all our lives because it maintains the health of the planet.Reduced biodiversity means we face a future where food supplies are more vulnerable to pests and disease and fresh waer is in irregular or short supply.

Growth in population and greater consumption have resulted in loss of natural resources. Destroying forests and hunting wild life and trading in wildlife have resulted in depeletion in stock of animals and birds.

Because of all this we are seeing the melting glaciers, rising sea levels, stronger storms, higher floods, less snow north and more drought south.

One type of ecosystem that perhaps is neglected more than any other is perhaps also the richest in biodiversity—the coral reefs.