Biodiversity Recap Biodiversity is important because: Living organisms contribute to a wide variety of environmental services; Human health and well-being are directly dependent on biodiversity, for example for medicines; and Biodiversity provides genetic resources for food and agriculture The facts indicate that the threat to biodiversity is serious.

Biodiversity is an issue of particular concern to the oil and gas industry, in particular because the industry often operates in the world’s most sensitive environments and because activities often result in a change in the surrounding environment that may directly affect the ecology.

Biodiversity has gained widespread attention at the international, government and industry level.

What particular oil and gas operations do you think are likely to have an impact on biodiversity?

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