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What communities can do

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  • Set up nature trails
  • Advocate for and promote the idea of wildlife corridors
  • Wildlife surveys
  • promote and encourage wildlife gardens

Campaigns

No to Biodiversity Offsetting!

Why it matters

Biodiversity is the degree to which species vary throughout the environment. It is used as a measure of an ecosystem's health. Biologists and ecologists who study biodiversity typically look for the number of species and the way in which species differ. They also study the distribution of biodiversity across the globe and trends that may be contributing to decreased biodiversity.

The period since the emergence of humans has displayed an ongoing biodiversity reduction and an accompanying loss of genetic diversity. Named the Holocene extinction, the reduction is caused primarily by human impacts, particularly habitat destruction. Conversely, biodiversity impacts human health in a number of ways, both positively and negatively. W

Cities and biodiversity

Cities and Biodiversity Outlook

Wildlife garden

A wildlife garden (or wild garden) is an environment that is attractive to various forms of wildlife such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals and so on. A wildlife garden will usually contain a variety of habitats that have either been deliberately created by the gardener, or allowed to self-establish by minimising maintenance and intervention.

Many organic gardeners are sympathetic to the philosophy of wildlife gardening, and will usually try to incorporate some aspects of the wild garden into their own plots in order to both act as a means of biological pest control, as well as for its value in promoting biodiversity and generally benefitting the wider environment. W

Resources

Citizens data initiative

  • More than 1,200 species of bats comprise nearly a quarter of all mammals, and their ecological services are essential to human economies and the health of whole ecosystems worldwide. Source: unep.org, 21 January 2011
  • In Asia, more than 70 percent of primates are classified on the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered – meaning they could disappear forever in the near future. Source: IUCN, August 2008
  • The great apes are the closest living relatives to man, bonobos sharing 98.4 per cent of our DNA, gorillas 97.7 per cent and orang-utans 96.4 per cent. Source: Defra

Inspiration

Maps

Quotes

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright

"If you hurt nature you are hurting yourself" ~ J Krishnamurti

Video

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Events

2015

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May 22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
Annual event. 2015 - Biodiversity for Sustainable Development W / cbd.int

2011-2020

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United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
The goal of significantly reducing biodiversity loss includes special focus on supporting actions that address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, including production and consumption patterns. W

News and comment

2016

When I Dream of a Planet in Recovery, March 12 [1]

How 'natural geoengineering' can help slow global warming, Mar 2 [2]

2015

Every species counts: Value of biodiversity is particularly high in poor environmental conditions, November 17. [3]

Opinion: Health and biodiversity restored? How farming can rediscover its long-lost roots, November 16. [4]

2013

The Ecozoic City, March 19. [5] Over the ages we’ve invested huge amounts of effort and energy to keep cities and nature separate. What would it mean if that were about to change?

See also

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Biodiversity, Biocultural diversity, Biosphere reserve, Convention on Biological Diversity, Endangered species, Great Apes Survival Partnership, IUCN Red List, Orangutan, Tiger, World Land Trust

External links


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