Swiss president Simonetta Sommaruga has appealed for collective responsibility to preserve endangered species as she marked today’s International Day for Biodiversity with a visit to ecological agriculture projects.
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“The diversity of species is essential for our lives and our economy,” said Sommaruga, who is also Switzerland’s environment minister. “Maintaining and developing it is therefore in the interest of everyone and is our responsibility.”
Agriculture has a special responsibility, says the ministry, since it is closely linked to biodiversity and is dependent on it, but “intensive farming continues to destroy species”.
Sommaruga marked International Day for BiodiversityExternal link with a visit to sustainable agriculture projects in the northeastern canton of Thurgau. They are part of a pilot project in three cantons which her ministry says show “how beneficial agriculture that respects the environment can be both for farmers and for the flora and fauna”.
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