Global Biodiversity Assessment: Summary for Policy- Makers

Biodiversity represnts the very foundations of human existence. Yet by our heedless actons we are eroding this biological capital at an alarm rate. Even, today despite the destruction that have inflicted on the environment and its natural bounty, its resilience is taken for granted. But the more we learn of the workings of the natural world, the clearer it becomes that there is a limit to the disruption that environments can endure.