The people who are cutting down trees need to stop. The animals live in those trees. Killing animals and trees is not helping biodiversity. I think people need to volunteer more to help the earth and biodiversity. :)

we need biodiversity to study and understand the earth and how it works. To take things away too fast so the earth can not adapted will only hurt us in the long and short run. we could learn a lot by observing nature and protecting it. Nature seem to keep giving to us gifts and human just keep taking but it should be our turn to give back.

As a environmental science student in southern luzon state university,,, our environment is our life ''kung wala ito wala tayong lahat.." [ed: without it we all . . . ] now so many issues that we need to phase and need our action... what are we waiting for?????????????

As a teacher and as a person, I always tell to my kids that it is our responsibility to take good care of our environment, BIODIVERSITY is our LIFE, without it, we are nothing.

If we dont act fast to stop what we are doing to our planet it might as well be destroyed. We are destroying habitats creating unbelievable amounts of polution whitch is making even the most beautiful places look like garbage and we are useing a crazy amount of resources.By destroying habitats we decrease populations and eventualy even the most populated species we be depleaded. Basically we are just a bunch of killers.

My 9 year old was asked to write an essay on the causes of biodiversity in Botswana. To him it was such a huge word to understand or even try to define. Thanks to this page he now understands everything there is to know about the word and his environment.

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The loss of biodiversity could mean loss of possible medicines.

without biodiversity the human race is basically done for.

We are the cause of these problems, we need to correct and perhaps even reverse our damage. I am tired of hearing people say that it is a hopeless pursuit and what can I do? I am only one person. Biodiversity is essential...we need to preserve ALL of it...ecosystems are being destroyed by those whose only interest is the "all mighty dollar". As an Environmental Science Major currently in college at age 45..my goal is to make a real positive change in preservation and conservation,and to find the elusive BALANCE between man and nature! What we take..we need to give back, or not take it at all. Earth was created for all living creatures, not just for the sake of man. I was really hurt and upset when on April 22...only 1 out of 17 people I spoke to on campus even realized it was Earth Day...and that one person had not made any effort to do something helpful for nature...something as simple as picking up a pc. of litter, anything. Yes, one person can make a difference, if there are enough "one persons" that make a conscious continual change, biodiversity could recover and prosper again.

being a soul living in this peaceful environment, its our duty to save our mother nature from hazardous evils,and these evils not only threatens human life but also the holiness of our earth

I believe as people we are not any more important than the other creatures on this planet. We need to be able to share this world with the other animals.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that we are killing ourselves and our future generations if WE ALL do not stop and start doing all that we can to preserve nature. To continue to allow many species of plants and animals to die for monetary gain is RIDICULOU! As the old saying goes, when you die, you can't take your monwy with you! So whats the point in having money if you are not here to enjoy it?!Help maintain biodiversity so that we all have a future to look forward to!!!!!!

this is very sad...

I think that its horrible that all these animals are becoming extinct. We are the main cause of this and we need to make it stop. Animals are just as important as we are. It would probably be a good idea if we started maintaining biodiversity, otherwise none of us will have a future.

we NEED biodiversity!!!! with out we are done

Humans are selfish we need to take better care of our surroundings. These surroundings include animals. So what if we have slower short-term economical growth? We need biodiversity to survive!

I think that the animals should be protected more and we should stop destroying so many ecosystems. Humans have caused the extinction of hundreds of thousands of animals and it all needs to stop today. Biodiversity is very important and we can't afford to lose it

people should volunteer more at protecting the bioveristy

The fact that humans are the main cause of the drastic rise in the extinction rate is sickening. It's sad to think that some of the animals we see today may not even be around when our children are alive!

I believe that if we had more volunteer workers or even people that would recycle we could help the biodiversity. If we work together we could over power the people that want to cut down trees that have animals in the trees because the trees are their homes. It sickens me to know we kill animals and trees to use the resources for ourselves and we don't even appreciate that tress give us paper and that killing trees kills the little animals that live inside.

I think we should do something to stop it because were hurting the lives of the animals living in those trees.

we need biodiversity it is use and our job to protect it we need to act and protect wat is left

The people that are cutting down trees need to stop because they are destroying the animals habitat and then they will have no where to live. Its sad to think that some of the animals we see today may not even be around when our kids are alive. People should volunteer more at protecting the biodiversity. Without biodiversity the human race is basically done for. We need biodiversity without we are done for.

i think its pretty stupid that our government knows that we destroy the amazing, exotic, and wonderful creatures every time we plow down an acre of rain forest.

Even though cutting down the rain forest for human needs is probably helping not only me and my family but the rest of the world, I still think that it's wrong for someone to destroy an animals natural habitat like that. We need animals and it seems like at this rate we won't have any left! I mean I can understand biomedriation because that is an important factor to help the ocean to become oil free, but the humans who are cutting down the rainforest are selfish and need to stop.

Biodiversity is so vital to the Earth. While it remains true that no species lasts forever, humans are responsible for most of the exticntion of orginisms on Earth, and must stop it.

This is are life at stake if all the things that are protecting our environment we are killing off and when all of that is gone we will slowly die...

Save the tamarins!

we r responsible for destroyin our biodiversity

It's sad how we dont stop and think about the poor helpless animals that are out here, knowing that if we were those animals...that we wouldnt like that !

Man, killing the trees,animals, and the habitats and stuff isn't a choice of helping da environment

Its selfish yet thoughtful how we destroy forests for humans which is somewhat great for us but we dont think about the animals amd inhbitants of the forest? Plus imagine what it will be like for our children to not know what a polar bear is. We will be talking half of the planets animals like we talk of the dinosuars.

i think that everyone should stop cutting down the rain forest no matter how it effects the humans. their are so many of us but so little population if wild animals and plants.

I think thst people should always think about the bad that comes from them doing things to the environmant. If people wont preserve our rainforests, we should do everything thing we can to preserve biodiversity. :)

its bad that we are killing trees and and animals.it makes worse that we know we are killing them and doing such little things to stop it or reduce the amount of animals and trees being killed.

biodiversity is much more important than people think. We have a beautiful continent and without biodiversity our planet is lost, I mean if we don't have rain forests we are going to run out of oxygen. So if one wants to die of suffocation then he/she can be against biodiversity. If it was not for this diversity we wouldn't know our origins as the primates

It's fantastic that almost everyone who commented here seems to be on the side of preserving biodiversity, but I have to wonder if they reached this decision after carefully weighing the pros and cons of nature v human progress. It's a very interesting dichotomy, and one that should be considered. Earth is beautiful; life is beautiful; but jumping to the defense of biodiversity simply because the article tells you to, or because butterflies are pretty, or simply because everyone else holds that opinion, is a very dangerous decision indeed.