What is Biodiveristy?

What is biodiveristy?Vancouver Film School students Amanda Healey, Jesse Lang, Juan Carlos Arenas and Roberta Ramalho combined forces, sort of like Voltron, and created an outstanding animated short explaining biodiversity. What is biodiversity, and why should you care? Well, according to Old Uncle Wiki, biodiversity is:

…the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems. The biodiversity found on Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological species. The year 2010 has been declared as the International Year of Biodiversity.

Still don’t get it? Hit play below and get informed as well as entertained.  When you’re done, share it with a friend.  This piece deserves to be seen!