About Biodiversity

What is biodiversity?

Biodiversity, short for biological diversity, can be defined as "the variety of life, the great richness of living things in the natural world".

Biodiversity includes: plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and also the diversity of habitats e.g. woodland

Photos: Liz Holden, Simon Whitworth

People cannot live without other organisms. These are a few of the processes that would not occur without other living things:

• Soil creation

• Production of oxygen

• Water cycling

• Pollination