World Endangered Species Day: our commitment to “ordinary” biodiversity
On the occasion of World Endangered Species Day, Guillaume Lemoine, ECT’s biodiversity advisor, highlights the importance of preserving “ordinary” biodiversity, which is also under threat. Are we suffering from environmental amnesia? In 1962, Rachel Carson’s famous book Silent Spring was published. It made the general public and elected representatives in North America and Europe aware of the ravages of DDT use, which emptied our countryside of its birds, both by poisoning them and altering their reproduction. DDT was subsequently banned. The climate crisis, which is just as serious, overshadows the collapse of biodiversity, even though healthy ecosystems and soils would
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