must reflect on the importance of biodiversity and the dangers they are subjected at present due to the current unsustainable growth, driven by short-term interests and its aftermath: a borderless pollution, climate change, ... environmental degradation, which draw a planetary emergency.
For some, the growing concern for biodiversity loss is exaggerated and argues that extinctions are a regular occurrence in the history of life is known to have existed thousands of millions of species from the first multicellular beings and that 99% of them have disappeared.
flowers grown in our gardens and eat fruit and vegetables that were derived from wild plants. The process of cultivation of selected varieties weakens useful feature for some species and often makes them prone to diseases and attacks from predators. So too we must protect the wild relatives of the species we use. Our future plants can be grown in what remains of rainforest in the savannah, tundra, temperate forest, ponds, swamps and other wildlife habitat in the world. And 70% of our agents is composed of substances having a plant or are in some animals.
We are continually expanding the range of useful substances from other living beings, but the rate of species loss is higher than these findings and each time a species disappears we losing an alternative for the future. The commitment to biodiversity is not therefore an option among others, is the only option. We depend entirely on plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms that share the planet with us.
However, driven by short-term interests are destroying the forests, lakes ... not realizing that is the variety of environments and keeps the diversity and massive deforestation and unsustainable deprived of their habitat countless species. We are also poisoning soil, water and air by pesticides and herbicides disappear with thousands of species.
The International Conference Biodiversity, held in Paris in January 2005, there were more than 15,000 animal species and 60,000 plant species other endangered to the point that the director general of the UN Program for Environment (UNEP) Klaus Töpfer, said the world is experiencing a crisis unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs, adding that it is time to consider how to stop this loss of diversity, for the sake of our children and our grandchildren. But in reality, we have already begun to pay the consequences: one of the lessons of the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, recalled Töpfer, is that mangroves and coral reefs play a barrier against natural disasters and where they had been destroyed, we multiplied the scale of the disaster.
is therefore urgent to put an end to all problems (increased urbanization, pollution and borderless multifaceted, intensive exploitation of resources, introduction of exotic species ... with serious consequences) that is causing degradation the planet, helping to protect biodiversity and prevent extinction of species, with measures that go beyond the passage of these problems and, in particular, plans of action to protect habitats and species of fauna and flora.
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May 22, since 1992, was signed Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) , focused on conservation and sustainable use of it, is celebrated World Biodiversity Day. Is a date that can and should be used to make clear that the survival of human beings is in serious danger if the current process of irreversible extinction of species, resulting from growth driven by short-term interests and absolutely untenable in a world finite, with serious effects of pollution, resource depletion, etc.
SAVE BIODIVERSITY IS IN YOUR HANDS!
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