The word biodiversity is short for 'biological diversity', and can be summarized as ‘the total variety of all living things’.

While we may not readily appreciate it, biodiversity provides us with many of the things that sustain our lives.

It is essential for our well-being that we protect biodiversity – the variations in species, their lives and their habitats – because biodiversity is necessary for our quality of life and our standard of living.

Believe it or not, Hailey Park is very rich in biodiversity.

Our aims as a group are to improve that biodiversity – whether its work we do ourselves or with other groups in the city such as Cardiff Conservation Volunteers, BTCV, Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, etc.

Photos by Suzie

Children’s knowledge of biodiversity is in decline at a time when we need future generations to be more engaged and aware in order to halt its loss. There is a very real need to educate our children as the future guardians of our planet, to provide them with the knowledge they need today to preserve the natural world for tomorrow.

Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity