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Biodiversity is the total number of species or life forms within any given ecosystem. The more varied the species, the healthier the earth is. Even cockroaches have their uses.
To celebrate a healthy Earth, the UN established International Day for Bilogical Biodiversity, which is celebrated every May 22, intending to bring biodiversity issues into focus. This is relevant to our times since global warming and climate change are likely to become the dominant and direct cause of biodiversity loss (wikipedia.org).
The theme for 2008 is “Biodiversity and Agriculture.” It seeks to “highlight the importance of sustainable agriculture not only to preserve biodiversity, but also to ensure that we will be able to feed the world, maintain agricultural livelihoods, and enhance human well being into the 21st century and beyond.”
Click here for a list of countries who have already scheduled and submitted activities. At the moment, they include Azerbaijan, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, the EU, Italy, Japan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. If your country is not on the list but celebrates biodiversity day in its own way, try to get the right officials to submit their participation to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat.
Canada, home to the CBD Secretariat, is inviting individuals and organizations to organize an event and submit a summary here. They also graciously provided a guide so we don’t have to wrack our brains for appropriate activities, click here for the list.
What can we do? Let’s help get the word out and promote awareness. 
Need any help in introducing the concept of biodiversity to your kids? Try this books at Amazon:
Winner of the Aspca Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards. The book offers an excellent introduction to biodiversity and how everything is related to one another in a great Tree of Life.
2. Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution
An introduction to evolution and Earth’s biodiversity for ages 4 to 8. Atractive cover, typography, and illustrations.
3. Children of the Sea: Marine Diversity of Caribbean
Highlights of 2 teachers’ and their youthful students’ expeditions in the Bahamas and Caribbean. Hardcover and illustated with pictures.
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