Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Blencathra (Conservative), on Monday, 19 May 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 33 members in total.

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BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINING LIFE CAMPAIGN

That this House is alarmed at the research contained in the newly published report Sustaining Life compiled by 100 experts which claims that a potential new generation of drugs made from natural resources will be lost forever unless the world acts to stop biodiversity loss; notes that this book points out seven groups that could be particularly valuable to medicine: amphibians, bears, cone snails, sharks, primates, horseshoe crabs and gymnosperms; and is concerned that frog glue, which could repair cartilage and other tissue tears in humans, is at risk due to climatic changes which have led to habitat loss and mutations in frogs.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1611 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Andrew Dismore

Nigel Evans

Mike Weir

Alan Simpson

Subjects

Biodiversity Health services Innovation Nature conservation Medicine

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk