Biodiversity – an introduction

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Biodiversity simply means the variety of life on our planet.

You may have heard of Climate Change, but biodiversity loss is a related threat which some might say is equally important to our future.

As with climate change, biodiversity loss is largely but not entirely due to humans and has been very apparent in the last few centuries.

Human influences can take many forms, e.g. habitat destruction and introduction of invasive species, but humans can also be part of the solution. For our own sake and for the sake of the other
creatures, large and small, who inhabits our planet we must do something and do it soon.