Biodiversity is also related to our health and the health of this planet. Besides, your health is inseparable from the health of this planet.
When we are sick, we rely on the natural environment to help us recover. Doctors in traditional medicine have long relied on plants and herbs to treat diseases. Plants also provide effective ingredients for modern medicine, such as ingredients for making aspirin. Not long ago, experts found plant components used to treat cancer in Pacific yew trees and Madagascar Catharanthus roseus. Maybe one day, we can find plant ingredients that kill HIV from plants.
However, the medicinal value of plants and animals is not always a good thing. In fact, human demand for these plants and animals has led to endangered species. Traditional medicine uses turtles as medicine, which leads to the extreme decline of this species.
We repeatedly look for drugs from the earth's medicine cabinet, so we need to protect biodiversity, so that nature's medicine cabinet can store the ingredients of existing drugs and the ingredients needed to make new drugs when we need to resist new diseases in the future.