Biodiversity

The third prompt for Our Planet Week: Biodiversity 🍀

Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. I've tried to highlight the little things that are sometimes overlooked.

Information from IPCC: If you’ve ever picked up a handful of rich, dark, fragrant soil, you’ll know that it’s crawling with life: worms, grubs, insects, fungus, and millions of microorganisms. That life is what makes soils resilient and fertile. But over the past half-century, industrial agriculture, with its reliance on aggressive ploughing and chemical inputs, has been killing soil ecosystems at a rapid clip. UN scientists have found that 40% of the planet’s soils are now seriously degraded. Agricultural soil is being lost more than 100 times faster than it is being formed.