Green List - Biodiversity
from Christchurch City Libraries

Biodiversity International Day for Biodiversity is on 29 December. The convention is an international agreement encouraging countries to work together to conserve, sustainably use, and equitably share the benefits from biodiversity through action, research, policy, education and laws.

Long before the word ‘biodiversity’ evolved, the poet Milton was inspired to write about Earth’s riches:

‘Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and
unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with
odours, fruits and flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn
innumerable.’

The following books on biodiversity are available from the Christchurch City Libraries:

• Conservation and biodiversity by Andrew Dobson (333.95 DOB)

• The biophilia hypothesis by Stephen R Kellert (179.1 BIO)

• The diversity of life by Edward Osborne Wilson (333.95 WIL)

• The end of evolution by Peter Ward (576.84 WAR)

• The diversity of living organisims by R S K Barnes (editor) (570.1 DIV)

• The living ocean : understanding and protecting marine biodiversity by Boyce Thorne-Miller (577.7 THO)

• The seed savers’ handbook for Australia and New Zealand by Michel and Jude Fanton (635.0421 FAN)

• The sixth extinction by Richard Leakey (576.84 LEA)

• The spice of life by Chris Howes (333.95 HOW)

• The work of nature : how the diversity of life sustains us by Yvonne Baskin (333.72 BAS)