Biodiversity

Saskatchewan encompasses an extraordinary range of unique features and ecosystems. They include native prairie grasslands, sand hills, wetlands, lakes, rivers, sparsely treed shield, bogs and forests. These ecosystems are home to a rich variety of living things including trees and grasses, large and small mammals, reptiles and amphibians, fish, birds, insects, mosses, lichens and even bacteria. This diversity of living things and the ecosystems of which they are a part is termed "biodiversity". A key concept of biodiversity is that every living thing, including people, has a connection to every other living thing and its environment.

Biodiversity is simply "the Variety of Life". Biodiversity includes all species of plants, animals and micro-organisms from the smallest of insects to the towering white spruce and the ecosystems and ecological processes of which they are a part.

Biodiversity conservation will never be complete, but instead will continue to evolve and grow as time passes and our resource needs and ecological understanding increase.