Biodiversity? Find out what on earth it is at WWT Martin Mere
A new exhibition is officially opening on Wednesday 27 July at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre: Biodiversity – what on Earth is it? The exhibition is located in the space that housed the old cafe offering a range of indoor activities through interactive play, touch screens, video display and graphics.
The exhibition was last seen at National Museums Liverpool until December 2010 when Martin Mere won a bid to permanently promote the display. Centre Manager, Andy Wooldridge, said: “We are lucky at Martin Mere that we do have a lot of indoor space and it is important to us to ensure our visitors have plenty to do indoors especially with the recent unpredictable weather – this exhibition will be a fantastic new edition to the Centre.”
The exhibition was developed by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and has been touring to various venues around the UK since 2005.
For further information visit: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/biodiversity/biodiversity-index.html What is Biodiversity? Biodiversity; this one word describes the variety of all living things - plants, animals and microbes - and all the places where they are found. This variety provides us with our needs - food, medicine, fuel, clean air and water. But it also brings us things we don't want - superbugs that are resistant to conventional antibiotics, invading alien plants and insects and potential new killers.
Is all biodiversity equally important? Should we worry about species extinctions, whether natural or our fault? Should we be able to create diversity for our own use, or is that unethical? The exhibition: Biodiversity – what on Earth is it? attempts to answer these questions highlighting contemporary biodiversity research, and demonstrates how understanding biodiversity can help us face today's challenges such as climate change and feeding a growing world population.
