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2) Biodiversity
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Explores the biodiversity of Earth's creatures, including the different ecosystems, the food web, and endangered species.
3) Biodiversity
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Explores issues related to Biodiversity, including whether Biodiversity loss is a serious problem, what plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, how food production processes impact Biodiversity, and ways Biodiversity can be protected.
4) Biodiversity
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Offering a panoramic view of opinions selected from a diverse range of international sources, this book traces controversies on the importance of biodiversity for both humans and the planet and presents facts on the extinction of species of animals around the globe and the loss of rain forest plants and animals.
5) Biodiversity
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Presents challenges to maintaining critical ecosystems, experimental research proving to be effective, and a range of creative solutions, and includes photographs, illustrations, a glossary, and Internet resources.
6) Biodiversity
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What is biodiversity? This exciting and colorful video explores the concept of biodiversity as it applies to a wide range of environments. The importance of biodiversity on Earth is also discussed.
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"This artful and accessible guide to Earth's Tree of Life--the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet--helps young readers understand how every living creature, from the tiniest germ to the biggest blue whale, is part of one big family tree"--from publisher's description.
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In this program a student explores biodiversity with the help of academic experts, and learns why all parts of an ecosystem are important-even the mosquitoes. Focusing on biodiversity in Australia, the video examines the negative impact of European farming techniques on the continent's fragile natural environments; it also looks at Australia's high rate of mammal extinction and prevalence of invasive species as areas of concern to environmentalists....
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In the Kolli Hills of India, hardy, nutritious millet has been reintroduced to the farming community as a sustainable alternative to the short-term benefits of cash crops. And in Italy, a "food archaeologist" searches for long-lost varieties of fruit, aiming to promote biodiversity by breeding commercially viable strains. This program visits the people and places involved with agro-ecology projects, making the point that 75 percent of traditional...