Biodiversity is us and we are biodiversity

Context

The celebration of International Biodiversity Day on May 22 served as yet another reminder of the crucial role that nature plays in addressing the challenge of climate change.

Significance of the Biodiversity 

• Climate change: mitigation of the climate change is of the significant benefit of the Biodiversity. 
• Basic services: Biodiversity fulfils our basic needs like food, shelter, medicines, mental health, recreational and spiritual enrichment. 

• Restoration of lands: Biodiversity helps in the restoration of the degraded and polluted rivers and oceans.