What is the value to humankind of biodiversity in the organisms with which we share our planet?
What will be an ideal response?
Biodiversity provides valuable ecosystem services, e.g. pollination, new food choices, continued soil fertility and pest control for agriculture free of charge. Biodiversity provides a wide variety traditional medicines and high-tech pharmaceutical products. Biodiversity provides economic benefits through tourism and recreation. Perhaps most importantly, as E.O. Wilson and Richard Louv have insisted, people need, value and seek out connections with nature which offer such intangible services as creative inspiration, self-growth and the experiences of beauty and peace of mind.
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