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![This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity focuses on biodiversity as the foundation for our food and health and as a key catalyst to transforming food systems and improving human well-being. Read the examples below that illustrate the roles certain species play in maintaining healthy ecosystems and biodiversity. Photo: Zoran Kompar Photography/Shutterstock. Honey bee on a flower. Photo: Zoran Kompar Photography/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/shutterstock_honey_bee_biodiversity_news.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=lZX9h94m)
Celebrating biodiversity in all corners of the world
The recent IPBES Global Assessment Report revealed that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, many within decades.
Turning this situation around will take time, money, and collective efforts at many levels. Since 1993, when the Convention on Biological…
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![The vaquita has now been classified as Critically Endangered with only about 60 individuals left in the wild. Photo: Paula Olson/NOAA. Vaquita half above water](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/Vaquita4_Olson_NOAA.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=pBcNHJML)
Three ways to include biodiversity protection in your life, besides cutting back on totoaba bladders
The theme of this year’s International Day of Biodiversity is “Mainstreaming biodiversity; Sustaining people and their livelihoods” and if you’re like 99% of people you will then ask – what is mainstreaming biodiversity?
Mainstreaming biodiversity is a broad term we use to describe a…