Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society 

What's your favourite thing about biodiversity? And do you feel empowered to protect it? Leave a comment below 🔽 or go to royalsociety.org/biodiversity for our Q&A

Sir Attenborough favorite forever❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

The video is indeed one of the masterpiece of animation and, of course, narration.... Thank you Royal Society 😊 As a teenager as well as a citizen of India- a developing country; I want to assure that I will try my best to reduce the rate of climate change & anthropocene. Sir Attenborough is a living treasure for entire planet. Thank you again 🪶

This video was beautifully preformed by David Attenborough

Very beautiful documentary. It explains very well what biodiversity is and how climate change is destroying it, what are the individual steps we can take to prevent this catastrophe. Congratulations on making an informative documentary

Sir David, thanks a lot for all job done

Very beautiful documentary.

I wonder who is behind the voice over of this wonderful video about 'biodiversity', His voice is so calming

Wow! What an awesome video!! Thank you Sir Attenborough and everyone who has made this possible!

This video is good for biology especially for year 5 beginners to secondary school.

This was so beautifully done! I needed help with this matter for my test coming up and this was a perfect explination. Thank you!🥰

i'm watching this in school, i also just want to say thank you for the vid

Perfect to show my students, thank you!

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:06 🌿 *The Role of Spider Monkeys* - Spider monkeys play a crucial role as "unwitting climate activists" by spreading seeds of tropical hardwood trees in their dung. - This contributes to the growth of forests, which absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. - Demonstrates how millions of interactions like these ensure a healthy planet. 01:09 🌍 *Importance of Protecting Biodiversity* - There are approximately 1.6 million documented species, but possibly 7 or 8 million more undiscovered. - Emphasizes the significance of protecting biodiversity, especially lesser-known organisms that play a vital role in maintaining a healthy planet. - Biodiversity provides essential resources like food, medicine, and protection from flooding. 02:41 🌎 *Threats to Biodiversity* - Discusses various human actions that are detrimental to biodiversity, such as habitat changes, hunting, and climate change. - Highlights the severe consequences of climate change on wildlife, citing the Great Barrier Reef as an example. - Raises the question of what actions are needed to address the biodiversity crisis, including cutting carbon emissions and protecting biodiversity hotspots. 04:15 🦜 *Conservation Efforts* - Showcases successful conservation efforts, like the reintroduction of White storks in England and the restoration of mountain gorilla populations in Africa. - Emphasizes the importance of hands-on management and community involvement in conservation. - Encourages a holistic approach to global development that works with nature and involves affected communities. 05:21 📚 *Learn More* - Directs viewers to learn more about biodiversity and its importance by visiting royalsociety.org/biodiversity. Made with HARPA AI

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Greetings! You have very informative videos and this particular video has creative commons license, can this be uploaded to a certain page for educational purposes? I would be glad to hear from you soon. Thank you

what a lovely video!

Great video 👌

It is an interesting video!

Bellissimo video! Really thank you! 💚

great video :)

this was almost as good as family guy episode the life of brian

Great.

Nice!

Interesting very intresting hmmm

Humans need Nature... Nature doesn't need humans. Let that sink in.

Que bien ... !

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moving yes

BEIJING - When President Xi Jinping of China and his entourage of government officials and business leaders arrived in Tanzania in March 2013, it was to officially promote economic ties between the two countries. But according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nongovernmental organization based in London, members of the Chinese delegation used Mr. Xi’s visit as an opportunity to procure so much illegal ivory that local prices doubled to about $318 a pound. Two weeks before Mr. Xi arrived, Chinese buyers purchased thousands of pounds of poached tusks, which were “later sent to China in diplomatic bags on the presidential plane,” said the report, which was released on Wednesday. The Chinese government has been trying to prove itself a responsible state actor that is serious about abolishing corruption and abiding by international law. But the report, “Vanishing Point: Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants,” details Chinese diplomats and military personnel colluding with Tanzanian officials and Chinese crime syndicates to send illegal ivory to China, decimating Tanzania’s elephant population in the process.

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Bio integrity v. Biodiversity • same family • distant relatives • same caste • intercaste • inter race • inter 👽 • inter 🌈 •°

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Yes...we always need biodiversity.....

What I dislike about these romanticised videos is that animals are used as happy little mascots, but in reality, they are victims en masse in the biosphere. There was no cutesy animation of a hyena tearing a baby elephant apart whilst it screams and cries for its mother. Yet this is as vital to it as a spider monkey eating a fruit. Also the idea we need biodiversity because we benefit from it, so we are using these systems and creatures for our own purposes, not because of some Disney-like sense of stewardship. The reality is basically polar to the idealised aesthetic presented in these sorts of videos. I just think we should be more mature about it.

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Oui Ted, pourquoi ?

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Because if it was only humans it would be boring .

uh- so my buritto is gonna catch fire?

Humans can create a hell or heaven on earth. what would be the end result?

Trees don’t absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. They end up up returning all of it back

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The species we detected are only 20%, that means our planet has 80% of dark species?!

IDCIDCIDCIDCIDC I DONT CARE

If you actually think that biodiversity is important, why continue your organisation (Royal Society)? The British Royal Family are colonisers who have an extremely bad environmental record which also involves genocide against indigenous people who helped many environments before they were genocided.

ahhh yeh thats not gonna happen, just say goodbye lol its almost over

Nothing about needing bio-diversity to train up great white hunters. children should not have to face apex predators but should be able to practise and learn on less scary and less dangerous prey. As he/she progresses they can have attempts at hunting what the bigger kids hunt. That is the reason that god placed kittens here, leopards here, tigers there.

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why dont we just remove all the damn forests and wildlife? proble solve just keep dogs.

Attenborough used to be good. Now instead of great documentaries he does this rubbish.