Biodiversity and Human Health
The role of biodiversity on human health can not be stressed enough. Essentially all human medicine and innovations have their proverbial roots in nature, especially in finding and exploiting new species of plants and animals. However, we are helping to eliminate thousands of species each year in what is being called the sixth great extinction. We could be losing new medicines and technological innovations due to our exploitation and abuse of the natural world.
(CC Image of Metrosideros polymorpha courtesy of David Eickhoff on Flickr)
