Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the multitude of different living beings in a particular ecosystem or on the whole earth. Biodiversity can be seen and studied at different organisational levels: genetic and ecological. It touches upon both native environments on land and sea as well as agricultural and other man-made surroundings.
The issues involved in the interaction between biodiversity and biotechnology have far-reaching consequences and need to be subject to an open and knowledge-based dialogue in society.