How losing biodiversity could be killing us

Antibiotics, pain killers and even treatments for cancer – many are derived from nature. But we are killing off the species that could provide the next nature-based cure. How bad is biodiversity loss for our health?

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:
Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of IPBES: https://zenodo.org/record/6417333#.ZEgk0y0RpTY

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
https://www.iucnredlist.org

From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2329.abstract

The biodiversity crisis is a business crisis:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/biodiversity-loss-business-implications-responses

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Discovering penicillin
02:05 Disappearing biodiversity
03:57 Healthy planet, healthy humans
06:51 Saving biodiversity
08:56 Conclusion

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