• This beautifully animated video shows the many ways that nature and biodiversity are vital to continuing life on Earth and how species extinctions and habitat destruction are jeopardizing our future.

Positives

• This video is brief but it makes the case for nature-based solutions to protect biodiversity and wild habitat in order to protect our future on Earth.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• If students are unaware of the extinction crisis currently underway, this PBS video, TEDx talk, ecosystem overview video, and article may help introduce the topic. 
  

Differentiation

• This video could be used in an ethics, social studies, or civics class to discuss if nature, wild spaces, oceans, and other species have the right to exist or if global protections should be enacted to protect interconnected ecosystems.
• This would be a great introduction to lessons about ecosystems, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity.
• Other similar resources include this course about the Anthropocene, this video, this lesson, and this Wonder of Science video.
  

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