Biodiversity is life
Biodiversity is our life
2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) by the United Nations. This is the website of IYB-UK, which is the UK partnership supporting IYB.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services.
Humans are part of this biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. Currently, our activities are destroying biodiversity at alarming rates. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely on. But we can prevent them.
We need to reflect on our achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgent challenges ahead. Now is the time to act.
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As a child I took the natural world for granted. I had the great privilege to grow up on the Gower peninsula in South Wales, a rich mix of heath, marsh, dunes and woodland, designated the first ever Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956.