[OPINION] World Environment Day: Celebrate biodiversity!
“With one million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus on biodiversity”
The World Environment Day 2020 would be celebrated on Friday, June 5, in Colombia. The theme for this year’s WED focuses on “Biodiversity”. The United Nations Environment Programme announced that Colombia would be hosting WED 2020 in partnership with Germany. Why Colombia? Simple. Because the country is one of the largest “Megadiverse” nations in the world to hold 10% of the planet’s biodiversity.
Meanwhile, it is important to know the minute details about the central theme for tomorrow’s celebration. Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. It is, however, not distributed evenly on Earth, and is richest in the tropics, for instance, enjoyed by a tropical country like Nigeria.
More recently, in May 2016, scientists reported that one trillion species are estimated to be on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one per cent described. The total amount of related DNA base pairs on Earth is estimated at 5.0 x 10 and weighs 50 billion tonnes. In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC .
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