Biological diversity is the variety of all life forms of all types of ecosystems( terrestrial, aquatic, marine) on the planet. The land, air and seas are home to the tiniest insects, microbes and also the largest animals and plants that all comprise the earth’s biodiversity.
Biodiversity holds immense significance for mankind and adds value to human life in the following major ways:
All the food resources of the world-crops, fisheries or livestock- are part of biodiversity. Many pharmaceutical products are derived from biodiversity, e.g. medicine quinine to fight malaria is obtained from trees.
Photosynthesis by trees and plants helps in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The evolutionary history of life suggests that many species have become extinct over time. As newer species evolve by natural selection, weaker ones gradually fade away. Although species richness has generally increased over time evolution of life on earth. in the last 500 million years, there have been a few episodes of large-scale decline of biodiversity too.
International organisations like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) play an important role in monitoring global biodiversity. The Living Planet Index tracks the state of biodiversity by measuring the population abundance of thousands of vertebrate species around the world.
As per the latest Living Planet Report 2028, the Living Planet Index shows an overall decline of 60% in population sizes between 1970 and 2014.
The current rate of species extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the standard rate of extinction in Earth’s history before human pressures became prominent.
The report observes that the present level of biodiversity decline and degradation are not normal; they increasingly resemble some of the catastrophic extinctions in the geologic past.
Every person on earth should be aware of our biodiversity and needs to promote some basic environmental conservation ideas. The most effective method to gain people’s attention is through the use of Quotes.
Below I have provided 35+ amazing and famous quotes on biodiversity. Biodiversity quotes motivate us to take care of our planet and preserve its natural assets for our future.
Biodiversity Quotes -
- Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? - E.O. Wilson
- The Preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour. - Kofi Annan
- Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril. - E.O. Wilson
- Protection of biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilising the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent. - Klaus Topfer
- If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. - David Suzuki
- It is the range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing- rather than just one or two stars. - David Attenborough
- Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have… Its diminishment is to be prevented at all costs. - Thomas Eisner
- We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. - E.O. Wilson
- We advocate biodiversity for its sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. - David Foreman
- Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points towards the future. - Frans Lanting
- To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth’s bodies of water, and the planet’s atmosphere are all under threat. - Graciela Chichilnisky
- We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own. - Diane Ackerman
- Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe. - John F. Kerry
- The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat. - Johan Rockstrom
- The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists - George P. Bush
- We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet. - Guilherme Leal
- I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. - David Suzuki
- It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness, But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone. - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I’m optimistic that we will. - Alice Roberts
- We tell stories with maps about global warming, and biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, and track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference. - Jack Dangermond
- We will invest heavily in safety and security… preserve the environment.. Make progress on biodiversity and economic progress. - Jair Bolsonaro
- Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity, - Mary McCartney
- There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge. - M.S. Swaminathan
- Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out. - Johan Rockstrom
- I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest. - John Lithgow
- The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. - Johannes Kepler
- We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own. - Diane Ackerman
- To many people, ‘biodiversity’ Is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature’, and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species but also the diversity within species. - Cary Fowler
- People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity. - Sylvia Earle
- Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. - Martin Rees
- Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have the most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants. - Cary Fowler
- The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death. - Ursula Goodenough
- Biodiversity can’t be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. - Donella Meadows.
- The more biodiversity we have, the safer and more resilient our ecosystem becomes - Jane Goodall
- The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity. - Gaylord Nelson
- The variety of life on earth is what makes our planet unique, and it is our responsibility to protect and preserve it - George Monbiot
