IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Safeguarding the diversity of life: life in the slipknot

03 October 2008 | Video

Biodiversity is the sum of every living thing around us. It is us. By letting it die we are killing ourselves. Habitat destruction and invasive alien species are considered undesirable side effects of development. That will no longer do. They are unacceptable side effects and they must stop.