Quotes About Biodiversity

Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them.

Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.

Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest, such as conflict and poverty to worry about. The answer is because these issues are interlinked.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Global avian populations are perilously declining because of human-wrought habitat degradation, and many individual avian injuries are at root human-caused.

You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that's not enough either. If there's too much poison around. We're talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anyways, I'd pick raven. A raven can kill, but will he eat garbage? Yes. He will.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

Recent study of beetle digestive tracts has found more than 650 distinct yeasts, at least 200 of which were previously unidentified

One in every four species of mammals (1,141 of the 5,487 mammalian species on Earth) is threatened with extinction.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves.