Ignore the incredibly lame credits song. This is a cool video, filmed in Panama by actual ecology students, foot fungus and all...
Biodiversity is all around us! In this video we introduce you to the concept of biodiversity. It is more than just the total number of species, however. It describes diversity at all levels from genetic diversity to ecosystem diversity. Yet we are losing biodiversity. We pose the question, "What can each of us do to help save what is left?"
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Get yourself free PDFs of old biology/taxonomy books and papers courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library:
As presidential politics ramp up and the environment becomes part of the rhetoric, it reminded me of a essay I wrote a couple of years ago as part of book pr
"suzi serengeti"?!
sorry, just had to note that. good video tho.
Can this video be linked or youtubed? I would like to share it on my site.
The original page is here and they have a button for sharing their podcasts.
I don't know if anyone is likely to see this, but in case they are, we were a bit peeved that agricultural biodiversity got such short shrift in this otherwise excellent video. So we've launched a competition to remedy that defect. Why not enter?