WE ARE LOSING EARTH'S BIODIVERSITY AT AN ALARMING RATE !

To quote Dr. Wilson " Only a major shift in moral reasoning, with greater commitment given to the rest of life, can meet this greatest challenge of the century. Wildlands are our birthplace. Our civilizations were built from them. Our food & most of our vehicles from derived from them. Our gods lived in their midst. Nature in the wildlands is the birthright of everyone on Earth.The millions of species we have allowed to survive there, but continue to threaten, are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history is our long-term history.Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all."- from HALF EARTH