Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
The Elements of Biodiversity - Biological Diversity
The measurement of biodiversity is complex and has a qualitative as well as a quantitative aspect. If a species is genetically unique — if, for instance, it's far out on a remote arm of the evolutionary tree, like the distinctive, peculiar platypus — its biodiversity value is greater than that of a species clustered with many similar species because it preserves a unique part of the ...
About the Center - Biological Diversity
At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a ...
12 Ways to Live More Sustainably - Biological Diversity
12 Ways to Live More Sustainably. Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a lot we can do to “choose wild” and reduce our environmental footprint to leave more room for wild animals and plants.
Endangered Species - Biological Diversity
The planet's wondrous web of life — which took 4 billion years to evolve — is vanishing in the blink of an eye. Under relentless pressure from habitat destruction, invasive species and climate change, species are going extinct at up to 1,000 times the natural rate. The diversity of life that ...
Species - Biological Diversity
Action for endangered species underpins all the Center's programs. Our work has secured protections for more than 720 species and more than half a billion acres of wildlife habitat.
Halting the Extinction Crisis - Biological Diversity
Specifically President Biden must support a plan that … Declares the global extinction crisis to be a national emergency and commits $100 billion to saving the diversity of life on Earth.; Creates 175 parks, refuges and monuments to build toward protecting 30% of lands and waters by 2030 and half by 2050, a campaign known as 30x30.; Immediately provides $10 billion to save …
Plants - Biological Diversity
Our information on plant species numbers is far from perfect. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List estimates that about 54 percent of evaluated plant species (not nearly all the plants on Earth) are threatened: 10,584 out of 19,738. Other estimates say about one in eight plants is considered at risk of extinction globally, putting the U.S. number at one …
BIODIVERSITY
BIODIVERSITY. The Earth’s biodiversity — the variation of life at all levels — is the result of 4 billion years of evolution. And now it’s vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Fish - Biological Diversity
Cold-blooded, scaled aquatic vertebrates, fish were the first animals known to develop bones. The first fossil, Anaspis, dates from more than 500 million years ago and is thought to have been armored and jawless.