Threats to

animal diversity
Done by: hashim,
abubaker,othman
jamal,maher

What is biodiversity

Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity,"

generally refers to the variety and variability of life
on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions
defines it in terms of the variability within species,
between species, and between ecosystems. It is a
measure of the variety of organisms present in
different ecosystems. This can refer to genetic
variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation
(number of species) within an area, biome, or planet.
Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be greater near the
equator, which seems to be the result of the warm
climate and high primary productivity

Threats to animal diversity

-overharvesting:

Overharvesting, also called overexploitation, refers to

harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing
returns. Ecologists use the term to describe populations that
are harvested at a rate that is unsustainable, given their
natural rates of mortality and capacities for reproduction.
The term applies to fish stock and game animals

 Habitat

loss:

Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to

species. The world's forests, swamps, plains,
lakes, and other habitats continue to disappear
as they are harvested for human consumption
and cleared to make way for agriculture,
housing, roads, pipelines and the other
hallmarks of industrial development. Without a
strong plan to create terrestrial and marine
protected areas important ecological habitats
will continue to be lost.

 Exotic

species:
Invasive species are a major threat to
our environment because they
can change an entire habitat, placing
ecosystems at risk
crowd out or replace native species that
are beneficial to a habitat
damage human enterprise, such as
fisheries, costing the economy millions
of dollars

 Climate

change:
scientists predict that global warming
could contribute to the mass extinction
of wild animals in the near future.
An overheating world is creating a big
change in climatic conditions and this
can harm the delicate ecosystems in
which species live. Threatened species
can already be found all over the world
such as polar bears, sea turtles.etc

 Pollution:
Pollution

is among the most insidious threats

to nature: it can be as revolting and obvious
as an open dump, or as invisible as the
chemicals sprayed on our crops and lawns.
But whether the effect is long-term or
immediate, the result is the same: pollution
alters the fragile balance of ecosystems and
brings death to many animal populations. It
took over 4 billion years, presumably, to
create an environment unique in the solar
system; it took only a hundred years or so for
humans to upset this environment to the point
where the sky is a little less blue, the water a
little less clear and the earth a little less fertile