• This video explains biodiversity, its importance for life on Earth, and how it's being reduced by human activities and climate change. 
  
• It gives specific examples of ecosystem disruptions and decreases in biodiversity in Colorado, Hawaii, and Australia. 
  
• To address biodiversity loss, the video suggests habitat restoration, habitat preservation, supporting Indigenous communities, and reducing global warming. 
  

Positives

• This video features great graphic design and does a nice job of explaining biodiversity.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The video content ends at 7 minutes, 41 seconds. The rest of the video contains a message from the creator.

Differentiation

• Science and biology classes could use this as a hook or introduction to the biodiversity of life, genetics, evolution, phylogenetic trees, ecosystems, population dynamics, or biogeochemical cycles.
• Social studies classes could use this resource when discussing the rights of Indigenous peoples, the plight of island nations, or in consideration of the idea that nature and other species should also have rights.
• Similar resources on this topic include:
  • Biodiversity and Humans
  • Are We Living in the Sixth Extinction?
  • Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
    

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