New species: the richness of nature

We know a lot about creation, but a lot we do not know. The enormous diversity of creation is well-known. There are numbers and numbers of living species. Around one million described. How many undescribed - another million or two? New species are discovered all the time - contrary to what most people think. Most of them small. Like insects or worms. Most people seem to think that we have discovered all the "large" or "higher" species, like mammals or birds. But we still discover new ones. And a considerable number - small and large - will undoubtly go extinct before we even discover them.

An illustration of this is a website I happened to see: http://marcvanroosmalen.org/newspecies.htm
Marc (a dutchman like myself by origin) works in the Amazonas. He describes a considerable number of new species he has discovered. Sea cows, pigs, monkeys, tapirs etc. A number of them are rare, and threatened with extinction. Marc uses his discoveries to stimulate preservation, as he states on his website: "My goal as a field biologist is to use new species as an ethical means to save entire ecosystems in the Amazon."

Have a look at his site and have again confirmed the diversity of creation and the urgent need of conservation. Do whatever you can for protecting the Amazonas and other precious natural environments!