World Biodiversity Day

Since 2000, the UN has been reminding us of our responsibility to safeguard the extraordinary wealth of the planet’s living species. AND IT HAS EVERY REASON TO:

According to WWF data from the Living Planet Index, global biodiversity is in a serious state of emergency: in less than 50 years, from 1970 to 2014, there has been a 60% decline in vertebrate populations, with more than 50% of the world’s mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians being lost. For its part, the FAO estimates that 75% of crop diversity was lost between 1900 and 2000.

“It is no coincidence that for this period in history we have returned to the use of the term mass extinction, which usually refers to past geological eras (i.e. the last mass extinction was 65 million years ago and involved the dinosaurs). This time, however, and this is something completely new, it is human activity that is solely responsible for the tragedy“.

(Carlo Petrini, in TerraFutura.Dialogues with Pope Francis on Integral Ecology, 2020).

WE TAKE A STAND FOR INTEGRAL ECOLOGY AGAINST THE CULTURE OF DISCARDING