From the Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre:
The United Nations declared 2010 as International Year of Biodiversity to celebrate life on earth and the value of biodiversity for our lives.
Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth — the plants, animals and micro-organisms, which are essential to sustain healthy ecosystems.
Biodiversity is important to humans as these networks provide us with vital services, which we depend on such as food, water, and air to breathe!
Western Australia is recognised as having eight of Australia’s 15 national biodiversity hotspots. Located across the State from the North Kimberley to the Fitzgerald River, Ravensthorpe in the south of the State, biodiversity hotspots are areas that are considered to be largely intact, supporting native species and high diversity of locally endemic species, which are found no where else in the world.
Humans are part of our rich biodiversity and we have the ability to help protect or destroy it.
Read more on the Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre web site
