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Why And Biodiversity? To learn of the human impact:


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Terrestrial
Environments

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Wild Verterbrate
Species

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Marine
Environments

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Coral Reef
Decline

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Global
Warming

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Insect
Abundance

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Increased
Trade

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Wetland
Degradation

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Global
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Agri-
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A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages…
-“On the Pulse of Morning”
Maya Angelou
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To see the birth of day’s transparent moon
Far from cramped walls may fading afternoon
Find me expectant on some rising lawn;
Often depressed in dewy grass at dawn,
Me, from sweet slumber underneath green boughs,
Ere the stars flee may forest matins rouse,
Afoot when the great sun in amber floods
Pours horizontal through the steaming woods…
-“An Ode to Natural Beauty”
Alan Seeger
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen, there is grief;
I love no leafless land.
-“Give me a land of boughs in leaf”
A.E. Housman
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…Then the chant
Of birds, and chime of brooks, and soft caress
Of the fresh sylvan air, made me forget
The thoughts that broke my peace, and I began
To gather simples by the fountain’s brink,
And lose myself in day-dreams. While I stood
In Nature’s loneliness, I was with one
With whom I early grew familiar, one
Who never had a frown for me, whose voice
Never rebuked me for the hours I stole…
-“A Winter Piece”
William Cullen Bryant