The Guardian.co.uk, 17 September 2010

Interview with actor Edward Norton, UN goodwill ambassador for biodiversity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/sep/17/edward-norton-biodiversity

"...biodiversity and the health of ecosystems is neither an abstract scientific concept nor the pet project of a green elite. Biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are the vital underpinnings of human society Food and energy production on land and from the sea; medicine; tourism, and real estate: these industries...have been shown to be starkly vulnerable to the destruction of marine and terrestrial ecosystems...."