Biodiversity conservation is important for three main reasons: 1) Losing biodiversity would be incredibly costly to replace and sustainability is important. 2) Species need genetic diversity to ensure long-term survival and avoid inbreeding issues. 3) Biodiversity provides important ecosystem services like water purification, soil formation, climate stability, and resources like food, materials, and potential future medical discoveries.
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Conservation of Biodiversity and connecting to the subject Science, Technology and Society
Biodiversity conservation is important for three main reasons: 1) Losing biodiversity would be incredibly costly to replace and sustainability is important. 2) Species need genetic diversity to ensure long-term survival and avoid inbreeding issues. 3) Biodiversity provides important ecosystem services like water purification, soil formation, climate stability, and resources like food, materials, and potential future medical discoveries.
Biodiversity conservation is important for three main reasons: 1) Losing biodiversity would be incredibly costly to replace and sustainability is important. 2) Species need genetic diversity to ensure long-term survival and avoid inbreeding issues. 3) Biodiversity provides important ecosystem services like water purification, soil formation, climate stability, and resources like food, materials, and potential future medical discoveries.
• The expense of supplanting these (if conceivable) would be incredibly
costly. It accordingly bodes well to move towards supportability. A report from Nature magazine additionally clarifies that hereditary assorted variety forestalls the odds of termination in the wild (and cases to have indicated confirmation of this). SIGNIFICANCE
• To counteract the notable and all-around recorded issues of hereditary
imperfections brought about by in-reproducing, species need an assortment of qualities to guarantee effective endurance. Without this, the odds of annihilation increments. Also, as we start crushing, diminishing and detaching environments, the odds for collaboration from species with a huge genetic supply diminishes. SIGNIFICANCE
• A healthy biodiversity provides a number of natural services for everyone:
• Ecosystem services, such as: • Protecting of water resources • Soils formation and protecting • Nutrient storage and recycling • Pollution breakdown and absorption • Contribution to climate stability • Maintenance of ecosystems • Recovery from unpredictable events SIGNIFICANCE
• Biological resources, such as:
• Food • Medical resources and pharmaceutical drugs • Woods products • Breeding stocks, population reservoirs • Future resources • Diversity in genes, species and ecosystems • Social benefits, such as: • Research, education and monitoring • Recreation and tourism • Cultural values END