Quotes About Biodiversity

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there's such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many other important things to worry about. But if we stop trying, the chances are that pretty soon we'll end up with a world where there are no tigers or elephants, or sawfishes or whooping cranes, or albatrosses or ground iguanas. And I think that would be a shame, don't you?

My idea is entirely different. I think we should mix all the species together and scatter them worldwide, completely doing away with their uneven distribution. This would give nature a full palette to work with as it establishes a new balance given the current conditions. I call this the Second Genesis.

Almost everything she had done in her life, she realised - almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed - had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.

El biólogo E. O. Wilson escribió que Colombia debería contarse como «uno de los países de la megadiversidad de la Tierra, con una fauna y una flora cuya riqueza solo es comparable a la de Brasil».

Es urgente pues detener este «ecocidio» de los océanos, uno de los ecosistemas más preciados y más útiles para el equilibrio del planeta, que no obstante ha sido rebajado al rango de «recurso económico» o de basurero.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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.

The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

The yellow-billed cuckoo is one of few birds that eat this caterpillar, Other birds don't like to eat such a fuzzy meal. On quiet days, if there are many cabbage caterpillars attacking a cabbage patch, you

These constantly arriving foreign inhabitants form the first of at least four explanations for the high biodiversity urban naturalists are encountering in their cities. A second explanation is the fact that the places where people like to build their settlements, which then grow into cities, are often biologically rich areas to begin with.

A third source of urban biological richness is, in fact, the loss of good-quality habitat immediately outside the city perimeter.

The fourth and final explanation for the rich biodiversity of cities is the sheer diversity of habitat patches.

Roughly, with every tenfold increase in island size, the number of species you find there doubles.

What all this means is that the ecosystems of cities around the world are growing more and more alike; their communities of plants and animals, fungi, single-celled organisms, and viruses are slowly inching toward a single globalized, multi-purpose urban biodiversity. And even if the exact species across cities may not be identical, you will find similar species playing similar roles.

European colonists cleared or damaged bush because they did not value it and introduced to more than sixty-five per cent of the continent mono-cultures of non-Australian species they did value... it is our southern Eurasian ancestors... who are actually nomads because we overpopulate... damage land in the process, then wage wars on neighbours to take their land in order to continue to over-populate, and on it goes.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

There was truly something special about the instances when one's eyes were opened to the magic of the Amazon basin.

Happily, nobody saves mountain gorillas, yellow-eyed penguins, and sea turtles because they believe human civilization depends on it. We save them for a simpler reason: we love them.90

humans are the species that can most affect other species.

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

Once they are gone, they are gone forever. ---- Sheila Colla, referring to our endangered native bees, as noted on the blog Liber Ero (from the book The Humane Gardener)

What if we could learn to see the world from the perspective of other species, both plant and animal, and understand that they, too, deserve the chance to make a life here? ---- The Humane Gardener: Nurturing A Backyard Habitat For Wildlife

Forests are the elixir of life