Biodiversity: Our Greatest Natural Resource

Inflammation is our body’s greatest foe

WHILE the initial stage of our body’s protective auto-repair mechanism when we acquire any type of acute infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoan, etc.) involves inflammation, which significantly helps in the healing process, “silent” chronic inflammation all of us have in our body, day in and day out, which is not obvious to us, is actually the cause of most, if not all, illnesses we are...

Biodiversity is our life.

2010 IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY, IN RECOGNITION OF LIFE ON EARTH. EIGHT years ago, more than 190 countries agreed, through the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010. This October, the Convention will meet in Nagoya, Japan, to evaluate progress and agree on new biodiversity targets for the world. Shortly before that, the UN General ...

The Precautionary Principle in Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Founded in 1948, The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 1000 members in all, spread across some 140 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any ...

Religious Biodiversity and Our Common Home

P ope Francis’s ecological muse in his 2015 encyclical on climate change and inequality is also his namesake. The pope begins his letter with lines from a canticle attributed to the long departed friar from Assisi. The saint is the first to evoke our human sisterhood with the feminized figure of our planet.1 But the pope’s subsequent admonishments are contemporary, and his own: “This sister now...

Water--Our Most Precious Resource.