Biodiversity Loss and Extinction

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Biodiversity loss and Extinction
Biodiversity loss can lead to extinction, and hurt human life. It is our responsibility to take care of the environment. We bring in machines that harm the environment and destroy animal life. We need to limit ourselves on how much land and resources we consume. There are major issues that are causing species to become extinct and hurt our way of life and other animals do to the change in food chain.
Many of the issues of biodiversity loss can be traced back to human interaction to the environment. One of the issues is alteration and loss of habitats. A lot of this issue is based on the destruction of habitats and for the land to be used for human consumption. The land is either used up for agricultural use or for neighborhoods. Destroying habitats and building them for our own use can have a positive impact on our way of living but a negative impact on the environment. We would gain land for building land for crops and communities to be built. The habitat for the animals would be destroyed and the species local to the land would either relocate or die. There are restrictions to deforesting land and there are organizations to help protect the land.
One of the big causes of extinction or the endangerment of species is foreign species entering a habitat. This species that are not native to the land can disrupt the food web in that community. These species take control of the food web and endanger some of the other species. The native species become endangered and over the course of many years they either adapt to their new way or life, the foreign predator leaves or is killed off due to the different environment, or the species is killed off and becomes extinct. Organizations like the “World Wild Li...

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...and consume. The earth isn’t getting any bigger or more abundant- so it’s up to us to take care of it.

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http://www.eniscuola.net/en/life/contenuti/biodiversity/left/loss-of-biodiversity/causes-of-the-loss-of-biodiversity/ http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/hooper/10thingsforbiodiversity.pdf http://worldwildlife.org/ http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0913/ANR-0913.pdf http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/acid-rain-overview/ http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/effects/surface_water.html http://www.wspa-international.org/wspaswork/whaling/aftertheban.aspx http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/biodiversity/biodiversity.html http://www.nrdc.org/air/pollution-standards/
http://www.rainforestconservation.org/rainforest-primer/2-biodiversity/g-recent-losses-in-biodiversity/5-causes-of-recent-declines-in-biodiversity/

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