Quotes About Biodiversity

birds, and insects.

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

Indonesia, and Russia are a few of the countries where you could spot a wild tiger today. However, you would have to be quite lucky to do so, because wherever they

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

There's actually a straightforward solution to invasive species: Eat 'em!

Today, cardinal-flower is a legally protected species and should never be picked or removed from the wild.

Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error. more than a rounding error.

We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.

a single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.

Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and richest at low latitudes.

coral cover in the Caribbean has in recent decades declined by close to eighty percent.

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". (...) We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

every year more non-indigenous species of mammals, birds, amphibians, turtles, lizards, and snakes are brought into the U.S. than the country has native species of these groups.

It demonstrates, he has written, that humans "are capable of driving virtually any large mammal species extinct, even though they are also capable of going to great lengths to guarantee that they do not.