Biodiversity, the vast variety of all life on Earth, is essential for human survival and well-being, but it is currently under severe threat due to human activities, necessitating urgent action to reverse this decline.
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biodiversity is a term that represents
the total variety of all life on Earth
that's a big thing
to sum up thousands of different world
habitats millions of different species
billions of different individuals and
the trillions of different
characteristics they all have the total
biodiversity of our planet is immense
which is a good thing because the more
biodiversity the more secure all life on
Earth is including ourselves only when
life is at its most varied vigorous
biodiverse can we hope to thrive we may
not know it but we need towering forests
across one-third of the land surface to
block away carbon and keep the climate
stable we need millions of pollinators
and billions of soil organisms and
megatons of plankton to keep the food we
eat in supply we need strange plants
deep in jungles to create our medicines
and coral reefs and mangrove swamps to
protect the coasts we depend upon our
planets biodiversity provides all the
things we need for free but it will only
do so if there's lots of it and at the
moment it's under attack in the last 50
years our activities have dramatically
reduced biodiversity across the globe
we've snuffed out habitats reduced
populations of wild animals by 60% and
even driven whole species extinct
the number of lions in Africa has
dropped by 65 percent the number of
individual flying insects in Europe has
dropped by 75% the number of bluefin
tuna in the Pacific has dropped by 95
percent biodiversity is dropping
everywhere and fast this is catastrophic
for nature and therefore ourselves we
talk about climate change a lot but
biodiversity loss is as important an
issue how do we stop this loss of life
how do we ensure the biodiversity our
planet's vital statistic begins to
increase again in fact we already know
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