Biodiversity Loss

One of the environmental issue in our baranggay is

Biodiversity Loss.Biodiversity loss includes the extinction
of species worldwide, as well as the local reduction or
loss of species in a certain habitat, resulting in a loss of
biological diversity.

CAUSE OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Climate Change Deforestation

Climate change is generally defined as a
significant variation of average weather
conditions—say, conditions becoming warmer,
wetter, or drier—over several decades or
more. It’s the longer-term trend that
differentiates climate change from natural
weather variability.
Deforestation can directly lead to biodiversity
loss when animal species that live in the trees
no longer have their habitat, cannot relocate,
and therefore become extinct. Deforestation
can lead certain tree species to permanently
disappear, which affects biodiversity of plant
species in an environment.

Habitat loss
Overexploitation
Habitat loss has significant, consistently
Overexploitation driven by our rapid
negative effects on biodiversity. Habitat loss
population growth and unsustainable
negatively influences biodiversity directly
consumption patterns, are the primary causes
through its impact on species abundance,
of biodiversity loss which is now happening up
genetic diversity, species richness, species
to ten thousand times faster than for millions
distribution, and also indirectly.
of years before.

Wildfires Spread of diseases

Wildfires are a severe problem for biodiversity
since they can kill big areas of land.Thus, they
destroy the natural food sources for animals,
which have to move to other areas or they will
die.
Due to a loss in biodiversity, diseases are likely
to occur more frequently.Since our
environmental system is quite sensible and
structured, removing species from the food
chain can create serious trouble.

EFFECT OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS

 Government restrictions and
policies
In order to mitigate the problem of the loss of
biodiversity, governments are responsible to
provide a framework that protects the natural
variety of animals and plants.Human greed is
endless, thus this will not work without
penalizing behavior which threatens a loss in
biodiversity

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 Ecological effects
The loss of biodiversity has severe ecological
effects.Since our planet has ag natural system
and species depend on each other, losing a
small number of species can lead to big
effects.
Society effects
There are also adverse effects on our society
from a loss in biodiversity.In nowadays
society, we are just so focused on computers,
smartphones and other electronic stuff and
lose the connection to nature which our
ancestors have built in a natural way.
Effect on food production
A loss in biodiversity can have vast adverse
effects on our food production.Since we
nowadays exploit many natural living spaces
to an unhealthy degree, chances are that we
lose many food sources which we could
otherwise use in the future.
Economic effects
Declining biodiversity lowers an ecosystem's
productivity (the amount of food energy that
is converted into the biomass) and lowers the
quality of the ecosystem's services.Apart from
the environmental effects which are bad
enough, a loss in biodiversity also causes
adverse economic effects.
SOLUTION OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS
Save energy
Saving energy is a big contribution that
everyone of us can make on a daily basis.Since
energy is produced through the use of fossil
fuels, the consumption of energy leads to
pollution and also to global warming since
large amounts of CO2 are emitted into the air.
Stop over-exploitation of
resources
We should also make sure that the excessive
exploitation of resources is mitigated.Many of
our industries require metals and other
materials in order to fulfill their production
goals.However, by extracting these precious
resources, the living space of many species
will be destroyed.
Stop deforestation
About 90% of all species on our planet live in
the tropical rainforests.If we lose these
forests, we will also lose many species which
will have negative chain effects on the whole
planet.
Protection of habitats
Another related topic is the protection of
habitats.Since the human population
increases, we need more settlement space
and space to raise crops and cattle.We have
to protect those habitats, since if they are
destructed, these animals and plants are likely
to be endangered from extinction or even go
extinct.