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BIOTROPICA
Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 558-560Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00672.x
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biodiversity; conservation; extinction; rain forest; health; medicine; natural products
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The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. Despite the magnitude of the global crisis of biodiversity loss, its far-reaching consequences to human health remain largely unappreciated. The legacy of the natural world to medicine is profound and its potential to yield new therapeutics and advancements in biomedical science undervalued. The enormity of the global crisis underscores a fundamental truth, one that is seemingly obvious but has been tragically overlooked: Our species does not exist in isolation from the biosphere. Rather, our fate depends on it.
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