•  many human activities such as mining, farming and construction are constantly putting wildlife in danger. 
• We need to live more sustainable lives and to learn to respect nature and defend its diversity. work together to protect our planet – and ourselves.

•  Our climate is breaking down
• Nature is a tool we can use to repair our broken climate. 
• Natural climate solutions get just two per cent of all the money used on tackling climate breakdown. 
• we destroying nature faster than ever.
• summary: we need to protect, restore and fund.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/AP/AAP UK, South African, Brazilian: a virologist explains each COVID variant and what they mean for the pandemic

taking notes:

• Australia has recently seen SARS-COV-2 (that causes COVID-19)
• These incident involved people infected with “variants” of the virus.
• what's a variant?
• Viruses can’t replicate and spread on their own. They need a host, and they need to hijack the cells of the host to replicate. When they replicate in a host, they face the challenge of duplicating their genetic material.