BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Loss of biodiversity can be due to natural incidents such as forest fires, floods, storms and volcanic eruptions. These are still less harmful than forced causes and human intervention.

One of the main causes of this is Deforestation. While we use the lumber to create goods for ourselves, it is the organisms’ habitat. We are destroying unique ecosystems that can't exist anywhere else.

Secondly when we introduce species that have rare links to the entire food chain, those invasive species tend to break the ecosystem. They collapse the prey to predator relationship.

Climate change is the biggest threat. The constant change in climatic factors such as temperature, humidity, etc. leads to death of the species because they cannot adapt so easily and quickly.

Overexploitation leads to extinction of species. Whatever the end use is of the organisms, overfishing or overhunting leads to a vanishing biodiversity. If one species disappears, it affects the rest of the food web.

All types of pollution (air, water, noise) have a negative effect because the remaining waste particles of cycles end up in a cycle used and inhabited by various species.