Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society

I ❤ David Attenborough is very much still alive loved it.

Biodiversity is crucial because it underpins the health and stability of ecosystems that provide essential services to all life on Earth. A diverse range of species ensures that ecosystems function efficiently, maintaining processes such as pollination, soil fertility, water purification, and climate regulation. These services are vital for agriculture, clean water, and even the air we breathe. Biodiversity also contributes to resilience, allowing ecosystems to adapt to changes and recover from disturbances, such as natural disasters or climate change. Furthermore, it provides a wealth of genetic resources that can be used in medicine, agriculture, and technology. The loss of biodiversity threatens the balance of ecosystems, leading to the disruption of these services and putting the survival of both human and non-human species at risk. By protecting biodiversity, we are safeguarding the foundation of life, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring a healthier, more resilient planet for future generations.

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Futile. Humanity is incurable.

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I ❤ David Attenborough.

thats crazy

You explained how every things work very well thank you

thank you - please can we be informed about day by day action on protection & restoration in the areas of greatest damage. Please can we have stronger pressure on all national governments to halt forest destruction. Please can we have huge international efforts to convert desert areas to green experimental 10,000 acre zones.

This is a wonderful video, we are responsible to keep biology in the world diverse.

beautiful documentary!!

beautiful documentary!!

God man and nature and more events and other stories and facts and interesting things like different people and family and far more information please watch this video 📸❤

Bio integrity v. Biodiversity

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• distant relatives
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hey sir david!
so there are no gay species?
exactly. nature is not gay.

It is an interesting video!

If you actually think that biodiversity is important, why continue your organisation (Royal Society)? The British Royal Family are colonisers who have an extremely bad environmental record which also involves genocide against indigenous people who helped many environments before they were genocided.

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This video is good for biology especially for year 5 beginners to secondary school.

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Indeed. And humans don't own the planet. It is not there for us to just use as a commodity, for our food and leisure. Biodiversity is good for the planet, but in this video it is all about why it is important for humankind. I think that is really egocentric. Especially when they pretend as though things are going better due to our help. No, it was ruined by us in the first place and it can heal perfectly well without our help. The planet will do fine without us. No, it wil do great without us. Because yes: nature does not need mankind, but mankind needs nature.

Because if it was only humans it would be boring .

what a lovely video!

Greetings! You have very informative videos and this particular video has creative commons license, can this be uploaded to a certain page for educational purposes? I would be glad to hear from you soon. Thank you

i'm watching this in school, i also just want to say thank you for the vid

uh- so my buritto is gonna catch fire?

great video :)

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Interesting very intresting hmmm

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Stop animal agriculture... evolve to plant based farms. The easiest thing for anyone to do is to stop eating animal products. It's healthy for us, the environment, and it liberates the animals who share the planet with us.

This was so beautifully done! I needed help with this matter for my test coming up and this was a perfect explination. Thank you!🥰

BBC headline (29/3/23): "'Incredibly exciting': Beaver family released to boost biodiversity"

No. Human overpopulation x consumption (ie. mostly in affluent areas) is killing the planet. The extinction rate is currently far higher than it what it would be if humans had never evolved (background extinction rate). Releasing a beaver family is NOT boosting biodiversity. At all. Shame on the BBC for employing such dumb headlines.

What I dislike about these romanticised videos is that animals are used as happy little mascots, but in reality, they are victims en masse in the biosphere. There was no cutesy animation of a hyena tearing a baby elephant apart whilst it screams and cries for its mother. Yet this is as vital to it as a spider monkey eating a fruit. Also the idea we need biodiversity because we benefit from it, so we are using these systems and creatures for our own purposes, not because of some Disney-like sense of stewardship. The reality is basically polar to the idealised aesthetic presented in these sorts of videos. I just think we should be more mature about it.

Perfect to show my students, thank you!

Great.

BEIJING — When President Xi Jinping of China and his entourage of government officials and business leaders arrived in Tanzania in March 2013, it was to officially promote economic ties between the two countries. 
But according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nongovernmental organization based in London, members of the Chinese delegation used Mr. Xi’s visit as an opportunity to procure so much illegal ivory that local prices doubled to about $318 a pound. Two weeks before Mr. Xi arrived, Chinese buyers purchased thousands of pounds of poached tusks, which were “later sent to China in diplomatic bags on the presidential plane,” said the report, which was released on Wednesday. 
The Chinese government has been trying to prove itself a responsible state actor that is serious about abolishing corruption and abiding by international law. But the report, “Vanishing Point: Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants,” details Chinese diplomats and military personnel colluding with Tanzanian officials and Chinese crime syndicates to send illegal ivory to China, decimating Tanzania’s elephant population in the process.