International Biodiversity Day 2025: Help Life Thrive in All its Forms with your Actions Every Day!
Today, on International Biodiversity Day (May 22), we take a moment to recognize and celebrate the astonishing variety of life on Earth — not just as something to admire, but as something to actively protect and restore.
International Biodiversity Day is coordinated by the United Nations as part of the broader effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 15: Life on Land. It also connects directly with the goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Why Biodiversity Matters
Biodiversity isn’t just about rare species or distant rainforests. It’s the living network that makes Earth habitable: stabilizing climate, cleaning water, building soil, and producing food. The decline in biodiversity represents not just a crisis of extinction, but a collapse of the very systems we depend on.
When we lose biodiversity, we lose relationships — between pollinators and crops, forests and rainfall, animals and the seeds they spread. We lose resilience. But here’s the good news: restoration works. With community-based stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge, and regenerative practices, life can return — faster than most people think.
What You Can Do Today
- Plant native species in your garden, yard, or neighborhood.
- Support or volunteer with local ecological restoration projects.
- Learn from Indigenous land stewards and listen to their calls to protect sacred ecologies.
- Reduce pesticide use, protect pollinators, and grow soil-building plants.
- Share your voice online: Raise awareness, inspire action, and celebrate the living world.
Whether it’s a humble backyard garden or a continental reforestation effort, every act of restoration counts. Biodiversity is not something “out there” — it is here, now, woven into the land beneath your feet and the air you breathe.
Life wants to live. And we get to help.
To learn more about today’s significance and how to take action:
