Where do you live? In a city? In a village? In the country? Why should you care about biodiversity?
No matter where you live, we all depend on food, air, and water to thrive. These three basic requirements can only come from an ecosystem with a lot of biodiversity. Ecosystems come in many sizes and shapes: from a field to a stream to an ocean to the entire planet! The word ecosystem is used to describe living things and their environment. An ecosystem made up of many different and connected parts is said to be biodiverse (which means having many different kinds of living things).