China News Service, Paris, March 24 (Reporter Li Yang) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the "Man and the Biosphere" project, UNESCO held a biodiversity forum on the 24th.

The commentary published by UNESCO for the forum that day pointed out that humans need to live in harmony with the biological world.

　　The forum on the day was divided into three sessions, focusing on the three key issues facing the planet, namely biodiversity, climate and ocean health.

UNESCO Director-General Azoulay said, “We are calling for a revolution: to completely change our relationship with nature and living things. This is about the survival of all of us, because human health depends on environmental health, as well as with us. The health of the species living together on the earth."

　　The 15th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations "Convention on Biological Diversity" will be held in Kunming in October this year.

UNESCO’s goal is to enable all citizens of the world to have a sense of responsibility to protect the earth’s creatures and actively participate in related protection actions by 2030.

　　The UNESCO commentary pointed out that endless crises such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating ocean health, and depletion of natural resources have clearly shown that mankind can no longer maintain the original pattern.

The global rate of species extinction has been at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate in the past 10 million years, and it is still accelerating.

Of the current approximately 8 million animal and plant species, approximately 1 million are endangered.

This situation is clearly unsustainable.

　　The article said that humans need to comprehensively repair their relationship with nature and the biological world.

This is not an alternative, but a necessary condition for our survival.

Human well-being depends not only on the health of the environment, but also on the well-being of other species that we share this planet.

　　The article believes that we must invest appropriate resources with the necessary ambitions to protect and restore ecosystems, including natural ecosystems and ecosystems under human control.

Secondly, we also need to profoundly change the way of production and consumption.

We cannot continue to create gross domestic product at the cost of destroying nature.

Finally, we must fully communicate and raise awareness.

If you want to protect and respect the biological world, it is important to mobilize the transformative power of education, including the promotion of marine knowledge literacy.

　　The article also pointed out that in addition to protecting the surface of the earth, we also hope to promote the coordination of all populations in the world with the biological world.

Given that biodiversity plays a key role in economy, health and human well-being, environmental issues will become the core of our decisions and actions.

　　According to reports, UNESCO is the guardian of biodiversity-related knowledge and skills, and its network of protected areas covers nearly 6% of the earth’s surface area.

For more than 50 years, UNESCO has developed specific solutions to environmental challenges in these protected areas.

　　UNESCO hopes to leverage on the 714 biosphere reserves established in 129 countries and its 75 years of expertise to fully share relevant skills, initiate dialogue on various solutions, and strive to cope with challenges with all invited partners and support youth Movement to build a safer, fairer and more sustainable world.

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