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What is Biodiversity and why is it important?

Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is essential to sustaining the living networks and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on.

2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity, but protection of biodiversity is an ongoing issue and Greenfleet is proud to be helping by planting multi-species, native forests that not only recapture greenhouse gases but also restore vital habitat for wildlife, tackle salinity and erosion, and much more.

We've taken this from the International Year of Biodiversity website, because we couldn't have said it better ourselves: 

You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding environments, all over the world. You rely on this diversity of life to provide you with the food, fuel, medicine and other essentials you simply cannot live without.  Yet this rich diversity is being lost at a greatly accelerated rate because of human activities.  This impoverishes us all and weakens the ability of the living systems, on which we depend, to resist growing threats such as climate change. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are working to safeguard this irreplaceable natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss.  This is vital for current and future human wellbeing. We need to do more.  Now is the time to act.

The International Year of Biodiversity was capped off with a new global treaty to manage the world's economically-central genetic resources in a fairer and more systematic way at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, in late October 2010.

The International Year of Biodiversity has also led into the UN Decade on Biodiversity, so we're looking forward to celebrating biodiversity for another ten years and continuing to encourage on-ground action by asking Australians to plant more native forests for carbon capture and biodiversity.

Awards

Greenfleet has been planting native forests to help restore biodiversity since 1997, and in both 2010 and 2011 we were pleased to be recognised as finalists in the Biodiversity category of the UNAA World Environment Day Awards.

 

We were also honoured to be finalists in the Land and Biodiversity category of the 2010 Banksia Awards.

This recognition helps to demonstrate that action on climate change can also bring about significant benefits for the Australian landscape.