Question

Please choose an environmental topic of your choice and read/research the topic and write a short 3-4 page essay outlining the key areas of the topic/issue. This is a topic that you would like to learn more about so that you can share that information in your essay.

The essay should contain:

Title

Introduction - include a brief introduction to the topic, indicating the key areas and why you are interested in the topic/issue.

Body - You should include all of the key areas from the introduction, with supporting information.

Conclusion - You will want to wrap your paper up with a conclusion that includes your views on the topic/issue and how you think the topic or issue should/could be addressed.

References - You will want to include all references in a reference section. You must have at least two references, text, journal, paper, or other.

Answer 1

Title: LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY

Introduction: Loss of biodiversity is the annihilation of species (human, plant or creature) around the world, and furthermore the neighborhood decrease or loss of species in a specific living space. Despite the fact that lasting worldwide species misfortune is a more sensational wonder than local changes in species synthesis, even minor changes from a solid stable state can have emotional effect on the nourishment web and the natural way of life seeing that decreases in just a single animal categories can unfavorably influence the whole chain (coextinction), prompting a general diminishment in biodiversity, conceivable elective stable conditions of a biological community regardless. Biological impacts of biodiversity are typically balanced by its misfortune. Lessened biodiversity specifically prompts diminished biological system administrations and inevitably represents an impending threat for sustenance security, likewise for mankind.

Discussion:

Importance of biodiversity:

1. Reusing and capacity of supplements, fighting contamination, and settling atmosphere, securing water assets, framing and ensuring soil and looking after ecobalance.

2. 80% of human sustenance supply originates from 20 sorts of plants. Be that as it may, people utilize 40,000 species for nourishment, attire and safe house. Biodiversity accommodates the assortment of sustenances for the planet.

3. The deficiency of drinking water is required to make a noteworthy worldwide emergency. Biodiversity additionally assumes a vital part in medicating disclosure and therapeutic assets. Meds from nature represent use by 80% of the total populace.

4. recreation and tourism, social esteem and training and research. Biodiversity improves recreational exercises like flying creature watching, angling, trekking and so forth. It rouses artists and specialists.

Reasons for biodiversity loss:

1. Territory misfortune and debasement

2. Land utilize increase (and following area misfortune/natural surroundings misfortune) has been recognized to be a huge factor in loss of environmental administrations because of direct impacts and in addition biodiversity misfortune.

3. Environmental change through warmth stress and dry spell pressure

4. Unnecessary supplement stack and different types of contamination

5. Over-abuse and unsustainable utilize (e.g. unsustainable angling techniques) we are as of now utilizing 25% more common assets than the planet

6. Equipped clash, which disturbs human employment and establishments, adds to natural surroundings misfortune, and escalates over-abuse of financially profitable species, prompting populace decreases and neighborhood eradications.

7.Invasive outsider species that successfully vie for a specialty, supplanting indigenous animal types

CONCLUSION:

Consequently, we can see that biodiversity which is essential for the prosperity of life on earth, is going under the danger of numerous components identified with human exercises. There is a dire need to make a move to ensure the radiant biodiversity of our planet. We should make monetary approaches keeping in mind the end goal to keep up the Earth's biodiversity and take suitable measures to ensure natural surroundings and species.

References:

1. Heywood, V. H., ed. Global Biodiversity Assessment (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995)

2. Loreau, M., Naeem, S. & Inchausti, P. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)This book, which followed a 2000 conference in Paris, summarized the first decade of BEF research.

3. Cardinale, B. J. et al. The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. Am. J. Bot. 98, 572–592 (2011)

4. Worm, B. et al. Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 314, 787–790 (2006)

5. Griffin, J. N. et al. in Biodiversity and Human Impacts (eds Naeem, S. et al.) 78–93 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009)