Biodiversity and habitat loss from satellite data

This European Space Agency (ESA) resource helps learners explore the links between climate change, biodiversity and habitat loss using real satellite data. Through a sequence of reading, fieldwork and online research activities, students investigate how ecosystems function, measure biodiversity in a local area, and assess how changes to climate and land cover affect species resilience. The final activity uses ESA’s Climate from Space web application to analyse habitat change over time and consider how these changes may influence local species now and in the future. 

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