Quotes About Biodiversity

En los últimos doce mil años se ha perdido aproximadamente el 50 por 100 de la diversidad global y el desmoronamiento de los ecosistemas tropicales es una realidad predecible para este siglo, en tanto que su recuperación, de acuerdo con los datos expuestos, llevará varios millones de años.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

In fact, there are half as many wild animals on the planet as there were in 1970, an awesome and mostly unnoticed silencing.

Without trees, we cannot inhabit the earth.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they could repopulate a thriving world.

He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.