Biodiversity as life insurance

The Biological Conservation Research Foundation will be marking Biodiversity Day tomorrow by inviting Maltese and tourists to join its biodiversity research and conservation projects.

Bicref has organised and runs several projects focusing on coastal and marine biodiversity.

Biodiversity, a term used to include all living creatures found on earth, is not the easiest feature to study in any site but for Bicref it is an essential aspect that needs greater focus and effort.

The Maltese islands are still blessed with an interesting and unique set of flora and fauna, which needed careful attention.

The international focus of Biodiversity Day this year is on the importance of biodiversity as the life insurance for a changing world, where the growing human populations and expanding consumption were placing great pressure on biological diversity.

The international target of 2010 as the year by which biodiversity loss must be halted was too urgent to ignore. Biodiversity was too fundamental to put aside and low down in national agendas.

Earth was having to face many changes, most of them man-made. But humans could also contribute by trying to re-establish a natural equilibrium that would allow biodiversity to continue doing its essential work in the future, Bicref said.

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