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Your planet: Your voice

What does the natural world mean to you? What is biodiversity and why does it matter? How concerned are you about threats to biodiversity?

News and Views presents a series of short topical articles on nature and biodiversity. Each topic contains links to further reading. Linked to each topic, are multiple choice questions. You can express your views by answering these questions or by writing a free text comment. You can also see how other people have answered the questions and read other people’s views.

Or visit our Connect with nature and Your Nature sections

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Conserving biodiversity hotspots
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What future for the Arctic?

The Arctic: Cold, remote, desolate? Home to polar bears, whales, and hardy people? A frontier land rich in oil and minerals? A fragile region threatened by climate change and human over-exploitation? However you view it, the Arctic deserves attention.

Added 07 Dec 2011 In collaboration with the INTERACT project

Peat bogs: love or hate them?

Peat bogs tend to be seen as lonely, desolate, places, yet a closer look reveals they are teeming with life, and invaluable to people

Added 17 Sept 2010 / Updated 01 July 2011

Conserving biodiversity hotspots

Is it a good conservation strategy to protect areas which have been shown to have high numbers of species of certain groups, like birds? How well will this protect other groups of animals, for example mammals, reptiles or insects?

Added 16 June 2010

Blooming water

Caused by a microscopic plant, algal blooms are quite a common occurrence in lakes, and can be a problem for people and wildlife

Added 09 March 2010 / Updated 21 May 2010

What can nature do for us?

The benefits we gain from a healthy environment are called 'ecosystem services', and they depend on biodiversity

Added 12 April 2010

Harlequin ladybird threat

Ladybirds are a gardener’s friend but there is one species that is proving to be a real problem …

Added 05 March 2010

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... it's terrifying the rate at which this is happening.

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