About Biodiversity Forever
Our Mission
Conserving ecosystems, protecting species, and promoting sustainability through science-driven action and partnership to ensure a resilient planet for future generations, while also supporting companies and initiatives that advance human health and wellness in alignment with ecological sustainability. Objectives include preventing habitat
Conserving ecosystems, protecting species, and promoting sustainability through science-driven action and partnership to ensure a resilient planet for future generations, while also supporting companies and initiatives that advance human health and wellness in alignment with ecological sustainability. Objectives include preventing habitat destruction, fostering ecological stewardship, and connecting human prosperity to the health of the natural world.
Our Objectives
- Detecting, characterizing and inventorying biodiversity hotspots*
- Preserving biodiversity hotspots in a sustainable way in collaboration with local communities
- Helping to build reference collections and create databases of local fauna in Natural History Museums
- Assist young scientists in networking and to participate in Biodiversity projec
- Detecting, characterizing and inventorying biodiversity hotspots*
- Preserving biodiversity hotspots in a sustainable way in collaboration with local communities
- Helping to build reference collections and create databases of local fauna in Natural History Museums
- Assist young scientists in networking and to participate in Biodiversity projects
- Reforesting with native trees and plants.
- Assisting local communities and farmers to improve local agriculture and provide healthy plant-based foods.
- Assisting farmers to grow, harvest and extract essential ingredients used in OTC supplements to improve personal health, create jobs and improve local economies.
- Supporting woman-based initiatives whose mission aligns with Biodiversity Forever
- Supporting small business start-ups whose mission aligns with Biodiversity Forever
- Improving public health and reduce health costs to societies by ecologically sound integrated vector control
Our Team
Our Team
Our team is made up of passionate professionals, Scientists, and Entomologists who are committed to environmental protection. We have experts in sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, green chemistry and environmental policy who work together to achieve our mission.
Our broad-based mission includes:
Education
Establish museum class Insect Collections and state-of-the-art Biodiversity Knowledge Centers at leading African Universities, along with a network of research and field stations, for students, international experts as well as the public.
Collaboration
Collaborate with international Museums and Universities, and experts on biodiversity, to build local capacity to collect, catalogue, and preserve local biodiversity and generate critically needed species and environmental data.
Training
Reforestation
Connect leading U.S. University Biodiversity Programs with Africa Universities to expose and train students in Biodiversity, Clean Chemistry and other related curriculum.
Reforestation
Promoting Sustainable Living
Reforestation
Assist in Reforestation with entomological guidance and biodiversity studies.
Promoting Sustainable Living
Promoting Sustainable Living
Promoting Sustainable Living
Living sustainably is essential to protecting our planet and ensuring a healthy future. Biodiversity Forever promotes sustainable living through education and advocacy for sustainable practices. Support villages to improve farming and agriculture and provide energy sources in exchange for Agreements to Preserve Local Forests.
Preservation
Promoting Sustainable Living
Promoting Sustainable Living
Provide insect collections to Museums with much needed location and habitat data. Support Museum scientists to enable them to travel and collect rare insects in difficult to access African locations.
What Are We Facing?
The loss of biodiversity, is believed by scientists, to be the most dramatic of the global crises we are facing without any chance of reversibility.
The rate of species loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than before industrialization. Extinction of 50% of the world’s insect species over the next few decades is predicted in combination with an even more dramatic loss of insect biomass. The loss of insects can wreak havoc with natural food chains and the local biodiversity. Half of all farmland birds in Europe disappeared in just three decades. The birds were simply starving due to the loss of insects.
Biodiversity is under attack. “Hot Spot” regions, where growing cities and agriculture threaten rich biodiversity, are found mainly in developing countries. 25 major Hot Spots take up only 1.4% of earth land mass but contain 44% of all plant species and 35% of all land animals. Complete ecosystems are in danger of collapsing vanishing. Our collections are primarily from endangered Hot Spot regions.
The Importance of Insect Collecting
“Much of what we know about Earth’s biodiversity and its origins comes from the preservation and ongoing study of insect collections. Museum and university collections are libraries of the world’s biological, cultural and environmental history and are vital to our ability to interpret the past and understand our place in its future”. (Florida Museum)
Insect collections are the foundation to understanding the biodiversity of the planet and specific eco- systems – the specimens in collections are essential for describing new species.
Insect collections offer a lens into the past, a snapshot of the present, and a means for predicting the future of how earth’s biodiversity has changed and continues to change in response to climate change and environmental threats.
Insect collections represent a huge database of measurements, chemical compositions, ancient DNA, and other biological information that scientists can use now and in the future.
Insect collections are critical for educating the public about the loss of biodiversity, environmental destruction and the ecological importance of insects.
Insect collections help scientists to rapidly identify invasive insects that affect agriculture, forestry, and human and animal health. Annual U.S. losses due to invasive insects are estimated at $33 billion