Biodiversity And Sustaining Life Campaign

EDM number 1611 in 2007-08, proposed by David Maclean on 19/05/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Biodiversity, Health services, Medicine, Nature conservation and Research and innovation.

That this House is alarmed at the research contained in the newly published report Sustaining Life compiled by 100 experts which claims that a potential new generation of drugs made from natural resources will be lost forever unless the world acts to stop biodiversity loss; notes that this book points out seven groups that could be particularly valuable to medicine: amphibians, bears, cone snails, sharks, primates, horseshoe crabs and gymnosperms; and is concerned that frog glue, which could repair cartilage and other tissue tears in humans, is at risk due to climatic changes which have led to habitat loss and mutations in frogs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.