Paradise lost?

Vulnerable, threatened, and degraded. This is the status of Earth’s biodiversity, upon which we all rely. Humanity demanding too much from nature while at same time deteriorating natural world. Unprecedented rates ecosystem degradation species decline set stage for anticipated twice delayed 15th Conference Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP-15), rescheduled later this year. There remains avert a biodiversity crisis, but ambition action are needed in equal measure.