Conflict between Development and Conservation of Natural Habitats and Biodiversity

The above practices are mainly aimed at enhancing ecological resilience of species, ecosystem services, ecological connectivity, habitat creation, in-situ conservation, re-naturalization of policies, enhancing partnership between multiple stakeholders, and community engagement. The tools which can be used to promote ecological sustainability are biodiversity inclusive EIA, adaptive management, and use of revamped protocols for monitoring of the floral and faunal species.

In the race to preserve, conserve and maintain biodiversity and its functions in anticipation of the unprecedented and

Half Earth by E.O. Wilson (2016) deals with the complicated nature of conservation. The book is clearly written by a man who values every aspect of biodiversity, even to the point of disregarding certain key arguments against protected areas. This paper will summarize Wilson’s argument in Half Earth, along with his suggested solutions. To close, the concept of making half the earth a protected area has many positives and negatives that will be evaluated. Leakage, indigenous populations, and possible habitat fragmentation are all issues around protected areas that will be analyzed. The fact of the matter is that Wilson’s argument is complicated by works by other academics and authors.

here are many events that have taken place within the context of this controversy that have built up to where we are today. The history includes pivotal events, court cases, proposals, laws, and important figures. Environmental issues and public health effects that are intertwined with such issues were on few people radars until the late 50’s when the federal government began to take charge over these areas. Prior to this, environmental conservation was not a major concern. As early as the 1940’s people started to see adverse health effects due to environmental contamination. The post war period is where environmental issues started to be treated as such. In the end of the year 1953 hundreds of New Yorkers died and many others contracted lung

Southeast Asia and Oceania regions supports areas of significant biodiversity, endemic wildlife and a major proportion of the world’s threatened species. Development and expansion along with rapid economic growth within the region has resulted in regional decline in biodiversity (Iwmi, 13). Human-induced disturbance of natural ecosystems can alter species composition and ecological processes.

The article then talks about the ecosystem behavior and its carrying capacity. By breaking down the carrying capacity of an ecosystem, it reveals the importance of sustainability in making resources last. It also highlights how consumption and production plays a role in either positive or negative sustainability. Quality is an economic value that is important for carrying capacity; it helps knowing which resources have the greatest quality because then a country can determine whether or not a resource is great to use or not. This section also speaks about how many self-organized systems change until it reaches a specific point. This is critical to know because it reflects that human beings need to find a solution to the usage of resources, and instead find ways to unite to resolve the issues of the economy and the world. The article also spoke about human population dynamics and why individuals need to take this more seriously, as well as understanding that growth is in demand. It allows for people to understand how the world is affected by the population. Another factor that is to be considered is the timing of growth and migration. Throughout the years,

Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth. This goes for the genetic diversity, which is what makes a poodle different from a pit bull, ecological diversity, and species diversity. Biodiversity is very important to everybody on earth as our health and survival depend on it. This is why the loss of biodiversity is an issue. Having a great array of biodiversity allows humans to have a greater array of food to choose from and materials to contribute to the economy. For example, imagine if all the chicken went extinct in the world. That would be one less food source for us humans and the predators that eat it.

Preserving a species and its habitat is one way to ensure an increase in biodiversity.

Globally, environments are experiencing large numbers of extinctions and loss of biodiversity as a result of human development. In Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, the author reveals the difficulties of calculating rates of extinction in populated areas with high biodiversity such as rainforests. As a result of tropical deforestation, humans have reduced biodiversity to its lowest level, with theories proposing that fourteen species experience extinction daily (Kolbert 186). The issue of human development is also addressed in an episode of Planet Earth called “Living Together,” which relates agricultural development to the loss of biodiversity. Because agriculture requires environments to be altered

A conservation is an area of an ecosystem or nature that is being protected and preserved. The first half of the article describes four phases that have framed conservation and the time periods they take place in. These phases have great distinction between one another. They tell of how each conservation was perceived in that time and the science underpinning in them. The second half of the article discusses how the conservations can meet a happy middle of the four framing phases. The issue is ongoing but humans are figuring out what to do with conservations now.

The world is declining in biodiversity, 52% of it is gone. About 1% of the world species go extinct a year. That’s 1’000 to 10’000 species loss. Accompanying it, 19’300 species are endangered. Latin America loss 83% of its wildlife. Over half of Malaysia’s river fish species disappear during deforestation. Half of Australian state governments exploit the uses of national parks. The Alpine suffer dramatic biodiversity loss. The earth is clearly losing biodiversity. This is huge unnoticed threat that we need to address. Mankind depends on the ecosystem which depends on biodiversity. There are changes that need to be made and uphold to prevent difficulties from further escalating. This problem isn’t going to fix itself.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s Summary for Decision-Makers brought to light the fact that the rate of species extinction, over time, has increased at an alarming rate. This is distressing because species extinction means loss of biodiversity: a measure of a healthy environment. There are five main drivers, that are interconnected, that influence biodiversity loss and species extinction. While all five are interconnected they are strongly related to one in particular. That driver is human population size. The other four drivers are habitat destruction, overexploitation of resources, pollution, and the introduction of alien species. Biodiversity loss and species extinction, and the healthiness of the environment, are all influenced by

A global plan of action with a world conservation union ,the IUCN ,is biodiversity ,to mitigate

Humans have manipulated their environment for their own purposes since the beginning of time. Nature has provided humanity with many valuable necessities. Similarly, the term "biodiversity" is the variety of life within species, ecosystems, and ecological systems (Simpson, 2002). Biodiversity allows species to prosper in their environment (Liu, Zhang, Hong, 2011). The benefit of a diverse system is the services it contributes to humanity and its function in the ecosystem. (Nelson, 2014). In addition, in the article “Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real-world ecosystems,” the author states, that from a practical view of the policy of GDP, the primary matter should be the possible outcomes of the loss of certain species that

Franck and Brownstone define biological diversity as 'the variety and variability of living organisms and the biological communities in which they live' (36). Decades of progress in both the scientific and political arenas have advanced environmental legislation to protect biodiversity at not only the ecosystem level, but for specific species and genetic material as well. Research has shown the importance of every organism and their role in the global ecosystem, and legislation has gradually matured to protect not only species which may become endangered, but the habitats they need to survive as well. Growing consciousness surrounding environmental issues has enabled these protections to be