Joel Sartore's Majestic Portraits

Spectacled owl

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Diane Ackerman says that Joel Sartore's majestic portraits will help us not only feel a greater kinship with other species, but realise what's at stake when the world's biodiversity is allowed to shirink (sic) dramatically.

"Without a vast medley of life forms, how drab, how quiet, how sapless the world would suddenly become. But variety isn't merely the spice of life, it's an indispensable ingredient. One habitat alone - the dynamic well of the rainforests - is home to countless life forms, and provides us with healing drugs, as well as essentials such as oxygen and rainwater. Biodiversity grows, heals, feeds, transports and protects us; it's in our own best interest as a species, so it's tempting just to value it for self-centred reasons."