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Prince Charles trip to Galapagos Islands: interview on rainforest preservation; Prince Charles interview continued SOT - not sure how many people understand the whole essence of biodiversity is that we are dependent on all the services that nature does free - recycling nutrients, cleaning air and soil - we have to rediscover this way of working in harmony with nature rather than imagining we can work independently of it / we go on with our economy in one direction, disregarding or trying to suppress nature which is going to lead, ultimately, to catastrophe - also, we depend on biodiversity for many medicines and drugs / many prescriptive drugs come from natural compounds... - future medicines to deal with many human diseases and complications - we are witnessing rapidly increasing extinction rate / if we lose vital eco systems we are throwing away our life support system - read about gastric brooding frog, which is now extinct / they discovered it in Australia, not long ago, but it has a unique system where it swallows its young, they hatch inside then they vomit them up again - there is extraordinary compound these frogs have developed in their stomachs which prevent the tadpoles being digested - they were just starting to look at that compound, how it could be used to develop a drug to deal with peptic ulcers, but now the frogs are extinct because their habitat has gone