As you walk through the Bowmanville Creek Valley, you are surrounded by many kinds of plants and animals inhabiting ecosystems such as forests, streams, wetlands and meadows. Biodiversity is this range of living things.
Protecting biodiversity is one of the most important tasks we face. Worldwide over 1,000,000 species are threatened with extinction. Estimates put global biodiversity loss at over 50% in the past 50 years.