What does biodiversity do for us?
Channel: cynshih
Date: 29/03/2013

How does biodiversity affect ecosystem services (everything nature provides for our survival)? The answer is complex, but this much is clear: we need to preserve the biodiversity we're so rapidly losing, and to support research that gives us real insight into how ecosystems work.

This was a student project for an intro conservation biology course, taught by Brad Cardinale at the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. He stressed the importance of accurately representing scientific research and not making any exaggerated claims. You can download the annotated script here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kecpraae6olumo1/Annotated%20Script%20v3.docx?dl=0. (Also, we'd never made animations in Flash before, so we hope our primitive efforts are amusing!)