Environmental ethicists have debated three types of justification. Some environmental ethicists, and many conservation biologists, have claimed that biodiversity has "intrinsic value" (Soulé 1985 ...

This includes the richness (number), evenness (equity of relative abundance), and composition (types ... promote biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and ecosystem functioning (Figure 3).

The XPRIZE Rainforest is an international competition to identify the best possible biodiversity in an area of 100 hectares, i.e. 1 million square metres (10 km x 10 km) ... in three days and without ...