What is biodiversity?

Conserving biodiversity

The best way to conserve biodiversity is to save habitats and ecosystems rather than trying to save a single species.

Many high profile conservation campaigns focus on rescuing a single endangered species from extinction ... Blue Whale, bilbies, Koala. No organism, however, exists in isolation. If a species is at risk, then the habitat in which it lives is probably under threat too.

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