BIODIVERSITY
is a new word to represent the VARIETY OF LIFE on Earth, everything from
algae to elephants, bacteria to blue whales! This amounts to something
between 5 and 30 million species!
Just think of all the wild animals and plants in the world, add humans
and domesticated varieties of livestock, and imagine all the variety between
everything and there you have it - BIODIVERSITY!
WHAT
IS BIODIVERSITY?