Biodiversity

ISSUES

Biodiversity

Signed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Convention on Biological Diversity defines biodiversity as « the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems, the ecological complexes and diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems».
Interdependance
In every ecosystem, living creatures including humans interact with one another as well as with the air, water and earth. Due to global warming – which leads to the displacement of species in both space and time (annual blooming seasons, for example) – and the disappearance of certain species, 60% of inter-species interaction has been eliminated (IUCN estimates, 2006). The more species there are in a functional group, the less vulnerable that group; a change in one of its components can affect the entire system. Inversely, saving one particular species requires ensuring that the entire ecosystem...

NEWS

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SOUTH AFRICA - With rhinoceros poaching in Africa approaching an all-time high, one nature preserve owner has had enough. Ed Hern,...

FRANCE - TOULOUSE - La cour d'appel de Toulouse a confirmé le non-lieu rendu le 30 janvier 2009 par une juge d'instruction de...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -

It is horse versus helicopter here in the high desert.

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DEBATES

The problem is that we only worry about animals we find cute. I defend them all.

Antoine F. Goetschel

Antoine F. Goetschel, how did you become a lawyer for animals?I started to take an interest in animal rights when I was 23,...

A giant step for protecting ocean life

The Chagos has some of the cleanest seas in the world and...

Business as usual is no longer an option for biodiversity

In 2002 the Heads of State and Government attending the...

INITIATIVE

The Great Mother of the hornbills

She has managed to turn poachers and illegal woodcutters into guardians of nature. For many long years, Pilai Poonswad, a microbiologist and professor emerita at Bangkok University, held endless talks with the Muslim communities in southern Thailand. The aim: to...

VIDEOS

30/08/2010	Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken part in a wildlife...	23/08/2010	The past decade is the warmest on record since instrumental measurements...
12/08/2010	Despite numerous attempts to explain why the construction of a road...	11/08/2010	Aux USA, des mini-poneys remplacent les chiens d'aveugle pour les...

GREEN TIPS

Hedges in Aveyron

The respect for biodiversity sometimes means going back to traditional methods, especially where agriculture...

INDICATORS

Biocapacity
National biodiversity index
Threatened ecosystems
Protected areas

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