Mongabay: In a kick-off event for the UN’s Year of Biodiversity, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, compared the importance of saving biodiversity to stopping climate change. “The question of preserving biological diversity is on the same scale as climate protection,” Merkel said today according to Reuters. Germany is the current chair of the UN Convention on Biodiversity. “We need a sea change. Here, now, immediately — not some time in the future. This year has to be used to relaunch this …