How losing biodiversity could be killing us

Antibiotics, pain killers and even treatments for cancer – many are derived from nature. But we are killing off the species that could provide the next nature-based cure. How bad is biodiversity loss for our health? Credits: Reporter: Louise Osborne Camera: Henning Goll Video Editor: Markus Mörtz Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Biodiversity #Health Read more: Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of IPBES: https://zenodo.org/record/6417333#.ZE... IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n... The biodiversity crisis is a business crisis: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021... Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:40 Discovering penicillin 02:05 Disappearing biodiversity 03:57 Healthy planet, healthy humans 06:51 Saving biodiversity 08:56 Conclusion