Ecosystem services

PYRAMID - cosystem goods and services

Nature's benefits or ecosystem services depend on a healthy environment. Investing in nature will help to secure these benefits for future generations.

To conserve wildlife, we must end human supremacy, say researchers.

They provide us with many important services.

Healthy, diverse native plant communities deliver a variety of invaluable ecosystem services. The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment defined Ecosystem Services as “the benefits people derive from ecosystems (such as clean water, food, forest products, flood control, and natural resources).” Despite an estimated value of $125 trillion, these assets are not adequately accounted for in political and economic policy, which leads to ...

From the US Climate Resilience Toolkit, background on Ecosystem Vulnerability.

ECOSYSTEM

A city without ecosystem services is neither attractive nor alive. Creating, protecting and developing ecosystem services in urban areas can reduce ecological footprints while enhancing resilience and improving health and quality of life. By incorporating green spaces with plants and water courses, we can establish urban ecosystem services. Green-blue structures, the ground they rest on, and the animals, birds and insects that live there will provide us with the ecosystem services we need…

Clean water, pollination, and flood control are several of the free services that ecosystems provide to human kind. This infographic shows how ecosystem service provide huge economic and health benefits to humans.