WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? 🌳 Short for “biological diversity”. 🦠 Means the variety of living things in an area, at all levels of biological organization. 🐛 Includes genes, species, and ecosystems.
WHY DOES BIODIVERSITY MATTER? ✔ Important for utilitarian reasons (benefits to humans) and intrinsic reasons (inherent value). 🏕 Benefits to humans include shelter, food, fuel, medicine, and *climate regulation*. 😍 Inherent value includes the beauty of biodiversity and the Planet.
WHAT ARE THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY? ❗Climate change ❗Habitat loss and degradation, caused by humans and natural events ❗Pollution ❗Over-exploitation ❗Invasive species ❗Infectious diseases of wildlife
HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR BIODIVERSITY? 💡Learn about impacts of biodiversity loss. 🗣 Support government policies and collective actions that conserve ecosystems. We believe the best way to conserve biodiversity is to *protect habitat*, which is why we are proud to partner with Rainforest Trust! 🙋♀️ Be an environmental steward, by taking individual action.
SO FAR (Y)OUR DONATIONS HAVE:
Protected 1,195 acres of tropical rainforest and other critical habitat and kept 176,262 mT of carbon dioxide equivalents safely stored.