Saturday, May 2, 2009

Why is Biodiversity Important?


As you know, biodiversity is a shortened and blended form of biology and diversity. Also, biodiversity is known as genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity.For species diversity, a classic example would be a reef ecosystem which is composed of corals, fishes, mollusks and plants. Habitat diversity can be represented by Africa where we find rainforests, savannahs, and deserts.

Although we explained that biodiversity is IMPORTANT because we are highly dependent on other species for survival, it is also important to understand that each species are fulfilling a role that keeps life on Earth in balance, biodiversity provides us many services, such as ecosystem services,biological resources and social benefits.

If we somehow fail to protect other species as stewards of nature, the failure is more to ourselves than to them!

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