Biodiversity

ISSUES

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...

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DEBATES

Biodiversity, it’s now or never

Julia Marton-Lefèvre

Or so it often seems. It is easy to forget that all of this, without exception, comes directly or indirectly from nature. The...

Pour sauver la biodiversité, mangez-la !

En ce début d’année, on se prépare un peu partout dans le...

The Nitrogen Fix: Breaking a Costly Addiction

A single patent a century ago changed the world, and now,...

INITIATIVE

An Oscar For The Cove - One Man’s Quest To Save Japan’s Dolphins

Dolphins of the world are silent no more due to one man’s efforts to bring awareness and ultimately end the tragic annual dolphin killing tradition in Japan. The 2009 documentary

VIDEOS

17/02/2010	Greenpeace has unveiled a collaborative art project with well known street...	16/02/2010	Depuis que les abeilles ont disparu au Sichuan, les hommes répandent à la...
02/02/2010	This film explains the two solutions IUCN sees to mitigate and adapt to...	13/01/2010	Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing...

GREEN TIPS

Hedges in Aveyron

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

INDICATORS

Protected areas
Biocapacity
Threatened ecosystems
National biodiversity index

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