Threats to Biodiversity

Habitat Fragmentation and Deforestation

• Ecosystem conversion and degradation contributes to habitat fragmentation. Habitat loss from exploitation of resources, agricultural conversion, and urbanization is the largest factor contributing to the loss of biodiversity.
• In other words, it leads to unhealthy and unbalanced ecosystems that result in the loss of biodiversity and extinction.
• Further, deforestation is a direct cause of extinction and loss of biodiversity.

Over-exploitation of Natural Resources

• The pressures on biodiversity are, to a large extent, driven by economic development and related demands including the increasing demand for biological resources.
• In coastal areas, where human activities are concentrated, pollution, over-exploitation ....