The Eleventh Conference of Parties held in Hyderabad, India

“Biological diversity is of fundamental importance to the functioning of all natural and human-engineered ecosystems, and by extension to the ecosystem services that nature provides free of charge to human society ”(Lloyd, 2014). Biodiversity is very important to both plants, animals and humans on Earth and if one species is destroyed it throw the balance off .

Examining the repercussions on the national interest dealing with prosperity brings about extreme projections of lose to the US. The best-case scenario places the increase of 2-3˚C range having an economic impact of 0-3% of global GDP lost. Scientist on the other side of the spectrum agree an increase of 5-6˚C range is far more accurate dealing a loss of 5-10% to the global GDP (Freeman 1548). With the increase of globalization majority of states, including the US, are tightly aligned with economies and markets around the world. Additionally the potential loss of biodiversity areas on the plant will have a devastating effect on support for ecosystems services for humans. Biodiversity provides pollination, soil fertilization, biological controls, medical research and development of pharmaceuticals estimated value around $33 trillion (Freeman 1556). No longer can the US play an isolated role when dealing with climate change.

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

The modern conservation movement, with a reliance on a purely scientific paradigm, has proved unsuccessful. The rate of biodiversity loss, unsustainable consumerism, and ecosystem destruction has not slowed down, and only 7% of global land surface has been saved. This is despite the wealth of information provided by western scientists how environmental degradation is harmful for the health of individuals, communities, our species, and our planet. “The environmental crisis is more than a matter of information, knowledge, and skills.”10 In order to form more effective, long-term policies and shift apathetic attitudes, scientific data and additionally TEK (Traditional

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

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.

Biodiversity is the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable. Slowly the Earth is changing because of climate change and biodiversity is very important now to ensure that a rapid loss of animals doesn’t affect the way the world will grow in the future. In this report the issues of extinction will be discussed along with an example of an extinct animal called the Diprotodon optatum. Sustainable practises, such as recycling, help to prevent the extinction of animal and plant life all over the world. This essay will argue that the prevention of extinction of animals is essential to ensure that the biodiversity of the Earth is sustained.

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

Since 1975, society has pushed for greater protection and conservation of depleted areas to reduce the anthropocentric impact on ecology. The need to protect areas from globalisation and “human violence” (Cronon 1995, p.19) is due to the over extraction of natural materials. The overuse of materials from the natural realm has devastating effects on the biodiversity of the land due to the lack of replenishment once resources have been extracted. Berkes (2004) presents this notion of community-based conservation, referring to conservation and development being simultaneously achieved. In theory, this allows the interest of both the natural and human world to be fulfilled although in reality there would be large displacements between the needs of conservation and development (Berkes 2004). The worlds movement into the anthropocene era creates strife between the protection of the environment in contrast to the capitalist influence of development. Paige et al. (2006) conceptualises nature and culture dichotomy disempowering each other as an ultimatum is presented referring to excluding the anthropocene from the land or placing unrealistic standards in which one must achieve. It is believed that the simultaneous development of the world and protection of nature is achievable although many critics, such as Paige, demonstrate another truth, being the natural world and the anthropocene cannot co-exist. Sarkar (1999) discusses overconsumption of the wilderness and

“The impacts of biodiversity loss include clearly into fewer new cures, greater vulnerability to natural disasters and greater effects from global warming.”(Why to protect biodiversity and save endangered species) Biodiversity provides us with much benefits including medicine, Air Purification, fishing, agriculture, ranching, oxygen production, and climate moderation “By losing biodiversity we are losing the chance to discover new medicines…” (Why to protect biodiversity and save endangered species) Biodiversity has many great causes in

Biodiversity is the variety of plant and animal life in the world and as such is an important aspect of all human life. Nature provides food, and ways of preventing diseases. Overall, it makes Earth a livable place for all life. It’s been estimated that there are around thirty million species on earth but only around 1.7 million are identified. The issue with biodiversity is that it is rapidly declining in many parts of the world and once the biodiversity in an area is wiped out, it is basically impossible to revive. There are a couple of reasons as to why there is a steady decline in biodiversity. Some of the ways include habitat loss, spread of diseases or invasive species, and climate change. One way the rate at which biodiversity decreases

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

Loss of Biodiversity will affect the life cycle of several species which depend on each other for survival. This dependence determines the survival of species and the change of our environment. Exploiting the biodiverse species to extinction will result in desertification, rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increased pollution, increased droughts, increase in loss of items that we derive from nature for our own survival such as honey, fruits, vegetables, medicines etc. The greed to exploit will result in our ultimate extinction If a sustainable solution isn’t provided to prevent loss of biodiversity. If we continue the path we are on without taking steps to balance the equation the planet will

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