I’ve just read a recent article on the Guardian’s Environment Blog regarding last year’s United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.
In the final paragraph the author, Ben Bryant, suggest the UN need to come up with a better, less wordy, definition of biodiversity to help campaigners in their attempts to explain to people what biodiversity is.
Unfortunately biodiversity is not a simple subject, it is quite complex and covers many different areas. In the 261 words used by the UN to define it, there is the approximate 61 words that Ben Bryant could have used.
“Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth, it includes all organisms, species, and populations; the genetic variation among these; and their complex assemblages of communities and ecosystems.”
Is that not simple enough?
