The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity to highlight the threat of a global extinction crisis. In its report, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shows that, among the mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles, fish, invertebrates and plants, between 12 to 70 percent of the species may soon be extinct.

It is also estimated that human activity has accelerated the rate of species extinction by around 1000 times. At this rate, most of our beautiful natural environment will be wiped out within the next decades. We need to act quickly!