Forgotten biodiversity

There were therefore thirteen of them on February 26, 2026. Thirteen representatives of the Catholic Church came to visit the Agricultural Show in Paris. There were twelve bishops there and a priest from the Mission of France, engaged in reflection with the rural world. A message was published for the occasion, calling on stakeholders in the farming world to open new spaces for dialogue to move away from an agri-food model that is suffering greatly.

But here too, as in most Catholic documents, the colossal challenges of the ongoing collapse of natural biodiversity are not mentioned. However, around thirty Christians involved in the field recently launched an appeal to raise awareness.

Denouncing the growing mistreatment suffered by amateur or professional naturalists and other state agents mobilized to defend this natural heritage, they recall that “the people who work in biodiversity, water, forests, soils, air quality or peasant agriculture do not defend an ideology, but the very conditions of life, which God entrusts to us to transmit.” This mission also deserves to be saluted and visited.