Biodiversity.
Biodiversity refers to the incredible variety of life found in our planet. In the book Biodiversity II, Edward O. Wilson defines biodiversity as: "all hereditarily based variations at all levels of organization, from the genes within a single local population or species, to the species composing all or part of a local community, and finally to the communities themselves that compose the living parts of the multifarious ecosystems of the world." Life on earth is so diverse that we really have no idea how many species there are. Estimates range between 5 million and 30 million, but some biologists believe the figure may be as high as 100 million. Biodiversity is central to our existence. We derive much of the food we eat from species that were once wild, and we continue to rely on wild species to genetically improve domestic varieties of corn, tomatoes, and other food staples. We also use plants and animals found in natural ecosystems to develop new drugs for the treatment of various diseases. In addition, biodiversity provides us with many ammenities, such as bird-watching, ecotourism, fishing, and others. Despite the value of biodiversity to humans, we are currently destroying natural ecosystems at such a rate that many biologists fear that in a few decades we will cause an unprecedented number of extinctions. We are so far from cataloguing the diversity of life on Earth that an unknown number of animals and plants will become extinct and we'll never know what we lost. This is especially true of tropical forests and coral reefs, which we are losing particularly fast. These ecosystems are mostly in developing countries, which face many important challenges related to high debt burdens, poverty, social inequality, and population growth. Despite the grim outlook in some areas, there are many ongoing efforts to help preserve our natural heritage. Below you will find essays related to biodiversity, links to web sites with lots of information about what you can do to help save biodiversity, and some really good references if you want to read more about this subject.
"This Cosmos, so marvelous to those with eyes to see, is reduced to dullness by a blind and egotistical preoccupation with material things. Soon the horse and pig on the one hand, and wheat and potatoes on the other, will replace all these hundreds, these thousands of creatures - animal and vegetable - that God has created to live among us....They have the right to life and we annihilate them and brutally make existence impossible for them....It is unbelievable that the Creator could have placed so many diverse organisms on the earth, each one so admirable in its sphere, so perfect in its role, only to permit man, his masterpiece, to destroy them forever."
Père Armand David
1875
2006-08-22 13:21:41
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answered by Thomas S 4
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Use Ur Head Dummy.... So Our Resources Dont Run Out And To Protect The Wildlife Around it
2006-08-22 13:16:55
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answered by Yes No Maybe 3
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at first that's impossible to "preserve" our wildlife. that's barely obtainable to "preserve" our wildlife ... and that i'm hoping by ability of "our" you propose Earth's. in accordance with Evans submit, fairly with regard to clean shrink, that's particularly circumstances required particularly shade illiberal forests as a huge adequate hollow is had to be created for regeneration to be efficient, e.g. Eucalyptus diversicolor (Karri), Eucalytpus delegatensis (Alpine Ash). besides the shown fact that returned on your oriringal submit. The intrinsic fee of wildlife for people is tough to envision as almost all our thinking is in the direction of financial values. i assume the cultured values could be argued to be greater intrisinc. i assume it fairly comes all the way down to ones values, and the flexibility to settle for that the bidoviersity of existence in ecosystems is substantial as all existence could be respected and any injury minimised. besides the shown fact that for the duration of my opinion i think that the argument should be at first economically based rathter then intrinsically based via materialism of the people. i assume you're able to verify out indigenous cultures and how they believed interior the intrinsic fee of the wildlife (besides the shown fact that they nonetheless used it for components, searching, foodstuff, and so on so is that purely intrinsic fee??). additionally many of the indigenous cultures believed that the Earth and wildlife have been spiritually of fee.
2016-11-05 10:13:31
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answered by Anonymous
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To allow wildlife to live long enough for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to see them!
2006-08-22 13:16:55
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answered by Thunder 3
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If our wildlife can flourish on the planet, so can we.
2006-08-22 13:20:36
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answered by lighthouse 4
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We preserve it so that the earths ecosystem doesn't get disrupted.
2006-08-22 13:19:07
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answered by Anonymous
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For future hunting
2006-08-22 13:21:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Smoked game tastes better and lasts longer.
2006-08-22 14:05:04
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answered by SPLATT 7
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very important, these are the only thing next to nature that we can share as a "treasure" to the future generations for them to see and conquer.(",)
2006-08-22 13:21:57
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answered by taggat61 3
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If we don't, all kinds of disasters to our eco system could result.
Don't look to our pres. He doesn't what a science book is.
2006-08-22 13:20:06
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answered by Anonymous
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