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What is biodiversity?
Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variety of life on Earth. It’s a rich and wonderful fabric woven by millions of species, their interactions with each other, the communities they form, and the ecosystems they support.
You’re connected through a web of life to organisms like spiny lobsters, veiled lady mushrooms, mango trees, fennec foxes, dragon mantises, poison ivy, staghorn coral and glow-in-the-dark plankton.
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Over billions of years of evolution, living things like plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms have taken shape in millions of different ways.
Humankind has catalogued roughly 1.75 million of the world’s living species, but scientists estimate that we actually share Earth with 10 to 100 million species!
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Biodiversity is also the diversity of individuals within a species.
Plant, animal and fungi populations that have a variety of …