The fabric of nature woven from life’s immense journey of nearly 4 billion years, is unraveling.
 

Loss of life’s diversity is not just another abstract theory. Its wounds surround us. 

    Here in the Grand Canyon region, loss of biodiversity means no wolves, jaguars or river otters. It means old growth forests diminished and replaced by degraded dog hair thickets and little understory vegetation. It means damaged grasslands lacking their original abundant native plants and animals, or a shackled Colorado River missing its native migratory fish.

    As we continue degrading our land and water daily, nature’s decline continues. We lose some forms of life before we even know they exist. This is what biologists call the biodiversity crisis...

Why should we all be concerned about the biodiversity crisis?

    Some people have an innate respect for the well-being of other life forms. Others recognize that the earth is human habitat too. As species are lost, waters polluted and landscapes degraded, our health and comfort along with the human spirit diminishes alongside our wild cousins. To protect and restore our natural heritage is to protect and restore ourselves, the life that shares the earth with us, and to care for those who walk after us.

Grand Canyon Wildlands Council is responding…