Description
Biodiversity loss has been identified as one of the four main global challenges of the 21st century along with access to clean water, reducing poverty and climate change. However, while the other three issues are already well under way of being generally known by society, biodiversity has been left behind and remains even today a largely unknown or misunderstood concept.
We live in an incredibly bio-diverse world that we have inherited from 3.5 billion years of natural history. Biodiversity of life is the Earth's greatest resource as it holds the answer to a multitude of problems including remedies to cure diseases and ensure our well being. To summarise it all, we need a variety of species on Earth to survive.
However, the constantly increasing and accumulation of various human-induced pressures of which global climate change, global pollution and overexploitation of resources are pushing species to extinction at alarming and unprecedented rates.
In its unique format this book exposes the concept of biodiversity, its threats and implications for humanity in a way that is both pictorial and understandable to all.
ISBN: 9789810734572
