The melting of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age around 9,000 years ago caused huge landslides. The irregular distribution of the earth and rock masses that slipped formed a hilly landscape, as is also visible from here. Such natural processes give rise to new habitats and thus contribute to biodiversity. So biodiversity is by no means something static, but involves a constant dynamic - it is constantly changing and re-adapting, as it has done over the last 4 billion years of evolutionary history. New species may emerge, while others disappear. What is worrying, however, is the rate at which biodiversity is declining today.

Landslides, settlement, forestation, climate change, ... Try to imagine what the landscape here might look like in 1,000 years.