The theme for this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, celebrated today May 22, is ‘Our solutions are in nature’. This refers to the fact that nature has solutions to all the myriad of environmental, social and economic challenges that are facing mankind. It is like the Biblical text in Proverbs 6: 6-11 which, to wit, enjoins one who needs knowledge to go to the ant to study its ways and be wise.