Preserving Biodiversity

Environmental Commons believes in preserving biological diversity. We promote the understanding and connection between ecosystem alterations and its impacts to human health.

Biodiversity is a term provided for the variety of life on Earth as well as its complex patterns produced as a result of years of evolution. Biodiversity is recognized as the wide variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms. It includes genetic differences and variability within organisms determining the uniqueness of each individual created by the natural processes shaping chromosome, genes, and DNA.

It has been nearly 14 years since the world's governments committed to conserving our ecological underpinnings, or biological diversity, by adopting the Convention on Biological Diversity. And it has been almost five years since a supplementary agreement known as the Cartagena Protocol was accepted protecting biological diversity from the potential risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), sometimes referred to as transgenic organisms or living modified organisms.

While the United States government has yet to ratify either agreement despite 100+ other world government ratifications, Environmental Commons confirms the importance of each agreement and is actively defending biological diversity, genetic variability, and the wholeness of organisms within the natural environment.

Additional Important Documents

"The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all peoples a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world. It is an expression of hope and a call to help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history."
- United Nations Earth Charter