What on Earth is Biodiversity?

One million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction. The problem is, without this biodiversity humans are in trouble. But WHAT ON EARTH IS BIODIVERSITY? Here's what you need to know and why it’s so important for the health and resilience of us AND our planet.

[lunmaeessan]

I know it's fairly recent, but the lack of views and likes is surprising. Needless to say, I really liked the video. Thanks!

[naturefondernature]

My note from this video:
The importance of biodiversity is that it provides many essential life supporting functions to all living beings, and all are free.
Many problems/disasters we encounter todays are caused by the lose of biodiversity.
Some actions done to preserve biodiversity, but that are not enough, we need to give nature the opportunity(time) to recover.
(Also more actions needed to be done.)

[jmbrinck]

After reading Dr. Gary Stanley's comment below, I also noted the confusing numerical error at 1:35. This video offers a powerful message all Earth's people should receive and apply to our own lives, to turn the tide of vanishing species. It would be tragic if one error impacted this critical message, and I second Dr. Stanley's appeal to fix it.

[essjkinfok]

Seeing the polar bear struggling like that broke my heart, its a reminder of how good all humans have it compared to all other animals.

[isabelmariamoreiraferreira]

Very good. I will show it in a lesson of bilingual Science

[garystanley]

This video appears to have a significant numerical error at 1:35: The speaker says "the annual cost of biodiversity (or its loss) is estimated to be $125T — almost 2/3 of the worlds GDP." But then you show a pie chart with $75T for biodiversity and $125T for GDP. Both the amounts and the percentage illustrated in the chart disagree with what she just said. This causes both cognitive dissonance and distrust in the data! Please tell me I'm misinterpreting (in which case clarify in the video as I'm probably not the only one) or correct the video. These videos can have a powerful positive impact (esp on kids) — but only if they're coherent! Thanks!

[natureswarrior]

I have been campaigning about nature protection and conservation in my local community but majority are not interested. I am truly disappointed by them. Nevertheless, I will continue with my advocacy.

[YoItsMRK]

"Disease outbreaks" I think you mean 2020

[dylandevries]

Isn't the earth providing everything we want called something more like "farming". I would not have called it biodiversity. Don't get me wrong, I like lots of different animals and variety is the spice of life but, I'm pretty convinced that nature will fill every niche in the biological market. If one species goes extinct then another will fill that role. When rabbits, or frogs take over Australia, or Lion fish and catfish in the U.S. or when crabs take over the arctic ocean... The species they displace will be replaced by life of some kind including bacterial, microbial etc. Doesn't it just take time? Please correct my misunderstanding if you can. Why don't we consider swings in the number of species on a planet the norm? Why don't we root for the animals that are winning at evolution? Is this just the human condition where we have a habit of rooting for the underdog?

[matagoanagriculturecoopera]

what's the background music during the introduction?

[johnevans]

The part about us disturbing species and it giving us Covid aged really well!