Biodiversity - Overview

Over millions of years, plant and animal species have evolved, creating an intricate web of life unimaginable in variation and complexity.

In the last hundred years, due to human civilization, natural habitats have been destroyed or forever altered, causing a mass extinction not seen since the dinosaurs.

"If present environmental trends continue, we could lose half the species of plants and animals on Earth by the end of the century," says famed biologist Edward O. Wilson.

The devastating loss of biodiversity is speeding up, find out what you can do to help preserve natural systems.