CIYE 6 presentation

What on Earth is
Biodiversity?
Biodiversity Crisis

What on Earth is
Biodiversity?
Biodiversity Crisis

Outline
Time
Responsible Person
15 minutes open early for leaders
1. Opening Prayer about Biodiversity (5 minutes) (Indigenous)
5 min Marj
2. Welcome/Introduction:
- Video “What on Earth is Biodiversity?” (3.45 min)
- Laudato Si paragraph on biodiversity + COP15 (6.15 min)
10 min Kurt/Ryan
3. CIYE team will choose 5 “best” answers and ask them to share in
the plenary (1 minute each to present)
5 min James (facilitator)
4. Breakout Rooms (SEE-JUDGE-ACT) 35 min
5. Plenary (brief sharing of answers) (after meeting to send James) 10 min
6. Plenary: How do you feel about this activity? Use the menti.com 5 min Anna
7. Closing Act/Prayer (Prayer for Biodiversity)? 5 min. Marj
Total 75 minutes I hour 15 minutes

Opening Prayer

What is
Biodiversity?
in images and pictures

COP15/CBD

Pope Francis in Laudato Si
• Pope Francis gives
considerable attention
to these three crises.
Climate Change
Water Scarcity
• Each of this crisis are
of a scope and scale
that differs from the
harm humans have
done to portions of
the earth throughout
history; they involve
real threats to “our
common home” as a
whole.
• Chapter III. Loss of
Biodiversity
Paragraphs (32-42)
Biodiversity Loss

Create a google document for easy documentation
Guide Questions
• SEE
Is biodiversity loss happening in your country? If so, what
is happening and why?
• JUDGE
How do you feel about biodiversity loss? What does your
faith teach you about biodiversity?
• ECO-ACT
What actions can stop biodiversity loss, locally, nationally
and internationally?

PLENARY SHARING

• Type voting link and code in the chatbox:
https://www.menti.com/gty64rtt2s code: 5752 1669

Closing Prayer (From the Catholic Climate Covenant Earth Day
Resource)
Lord of all Creation, Maker of Heaven and Earth, Good
Provider,
Today we come before you in grief, in shame, to lament the loss
of beautiful creatures.
We grieve the more than one in four flowering plants, the one in
five mammals, the nearly one in three amphibians, and the one
in eight birds that are vulnerable to being wiped out completely.
We acknowledge that we play a part in this dying by our
carelessness, ignorance, and indifference. Forgive us our part
in the death of healthy ecosystems and the resulting extinction
of your creatures.

Refresh our love for all you have made. Renew our
resolve to advocate, fight, nurture and defend our fellow
creatures. Thank you for those who care for the earth -
the gardeners, the activists, the scientists, the
zoologists - sustain them and protect their hearts as
they strive and grieve.
We thank you for the magnificent world which you have
bestowed upon us. We thank you that you can do more
than all we ask or imagine and so we ask for your help -
restrain human evil, energize us for service, fill us with
courage and hope. May your world ever be very very
good. Amen —Prayer from Common Grace