Why you should care about biodiversity? 

1. You are a part of biodiversity. The same things that affect bugs, trees and fish have an impact on you too — the quantity of clean, fresh water, or the quality of the air we breathe.
   
2. Everything is connected. The health of biodiversity affects you. And what you do affects biodiversity. Everything we do either uses natural resources or returns them as waste. The amount of land and resources that a population or a person uses is called an ecological footprint. We all can do things to make our personal footprints smaller. 
   
3. Natural systems based on healthy biodiversity provide all kinds of services for you…for free! Things like cooling and filtering air, controlling floods, pollinating plants, controlling pests, aerating soil, and filtering and storing water. These ecosystem services would cost a lot if we had to (or even could) use technology to provide them. These services are called ecosystem services.
   
4. You have to live with what's left. A wise saying states “We don't inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.” If you're a parent, what kind of environment will you be leaving your children? If you're one of the children, you might want to know what you'll be getting in the future. What we do or don't do now, matters greatly to our future quality of life.

Did you know? Our wetlands provide us with ecosystem services valued at more than $20,000 per hectare each year. (Costanza, R., et al., 1997)

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Wasyl Bakowsky