Home | Rainforests | Freshwater Fish | Animal Photos | Travel | Contribute | Search Biodiversity - from tigers in Bhutan to gila monsters in the United States to the lone wild Spix's Macaw in Brazil to Horned beetles in Africa to the goldfish in your home to tube worms in hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean to sea cucumbers living on the coral reefs of Madagascar to the mites on your cheese - is makes life on Earth livable for our species. By extinguishing hotbeds of biodiversity - rainforests, wetlands, coral reefs, and grasslands - we are destroying a part of ourselves. Biodiversity will recover after humanity is gone, but in the meantime, the continuing loss of our fellow species will make Earth an awfully crowded, but lonely place. Past extinctions have shown it takes at least 5 million years to restore biodiversity to the level equal to that prior of the extinction event event. Our actions today will determine whether Earth will be biologically impoverished for the 500 trillion or more humans that will inhabit the earth during that future period. The extinction event that is occurring as you read these words rivals the extinctions caused by natural disasters of global ice ages, planetary collisions, atmospheric poisoning, and variations in solar radiation. The difference is that this extinction was conceived by humans and subject to human decisions. We are the last, best hope for life as we prefer it on this planet. The lesson of A Place Out of Time is we may not have to accept this future. A lot can still be done. Using our intelligence and ingenuity, the human species can preserve biodiversity and unique places for future generations, without compromising the quality of life for present populations. Recently updated conservation news topics: Baalbek Baby Python Bagerhat Baiji Bald Eagle Ball Python Baltimore Zoo Bamberg Bamiyan Valley Ban Chiang Bandiagara Banks of the Seine Barbary Ape Barbary Sheep Barn Owl Baroque Churches of the Philippines Barred Bandicoot Barred Owl Basking Shark Bateleur Baton Rouge Zoo Bauhaus Bay Cat Beaded Lizard Bear Country USA Bear Paw Clam Bearded Vulture Beardsley Zoo Beautiful Parrot Bee Hummingbird Beluga Bering Sea Berne Besra Biega National Park Big-bellied Seahorse Bighorn Sheep Bilby Binturong Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Biological Diversity Biological Safety Birch Aquarium at Scripps Birmingham Zoo Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Black-capped Lory Black-footed Ferret Black-mantled Goshawk Black-necked Aracari Black-necked Crane Black-necked Swan Black Colobus Black Eagle Black Falcon Black Hornbill Black Howler Black Kite Black Parrot Black Partridge Black Rhinoceros Black Stork Black Vulture Blackbuck Blank Park Zoo Blenheim Palace Blue-and-gold Macaw Blue-and-yellow Macaw Blue-fronted Amazon Blue Coral Blue Monkey Blue Pike Blue Reef Aquarium Blue Whale Bluebonnet Boa Constrictor Bobcat Bog Bog Turtle Bogs Bonelli's Eagle Bongo Bonobo Bontebok Booted Eagle Boreal Forest Boreal Owl Botanical Garden Botanical Gardens Boto Bottlenose Dolphin Boyana Church Brahminy Kite Brasilia Brazos River Brevard Zoo Broad-winged Hawk Brolga Bronx Zoo Brookfield Zoo Brown-headed Gull Brown Bear Brown Teal Brugge Bryde's Whale Bryggen Buff Weka Buffalo National River Buffalo Zoo Bukhara Bunch Burgos Cathedral Burmese Python Burrowing Owl Bush Dog Bushmeat Butrint Buzzard Bwindi Byblos A | B | C | DE | F | G | HI | JK | L | M | N | O | P | QR | S | T | UV | WXYZ   mongabay.com conservation.mongabay.com   What's New   Threatened Species   UNESCO World Heritage Sites   Zoos & Aquariums   Conservation Efforts   Endangered Places   Archive List. Home | Rainforests | Freshwater Fish | Animal Photos | Travel | Contribute | Search

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