In ecology, the term habitat means the resources in which the wildlife exists,

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Habitat and Biodiversity Loss

In ecology, the term habitat means the resources in which the wildlife exists, and therefore this is what the wild animals majorly depend on for their growth and existence. It is known as the home to wild animals and other bio-diversity. Consequently, it is an important aspect of discussion about ecology and issues that affect ecology. On the other hand, bio-diversity is the combination of living things in the world and mainly the parts that form this life and which are considered important.

Bio-diversity lives within a habitat, and it is very much related to the habitat. Habitat and biodiversity loss is a situation whereby biodiversity is in danger due to the encroachments of human beings into their habitats (Hunt & Wall, 47). This paper, therefore, discusses this encroachment of human beings towards bio-diversity and how the work of human beings affects and accelerates the loss of biodiversity. Consequently, the paper also discusses the different efforts made towards ensuring that the loss of bio-diversity is counteracted and how other methods of countering the loss of bio-diversity are possible and what this means for human beings’ lives (Hunt & Wall, 40).

Human beings accelerate the process of losing biodiversity. Therefore, it is a process that has a lot of negative impacts on human beings and the environment. Bio-diversity is lost when human beings encroach on the wildlife and general biodiversity in the world. Human beings do this for several reasons and are pushed by different factors. Even though there is still a vast land that is not used, there is still a larger piece of land upon which human beings still desire and are in the process of trying to capture and reach unto. These efforts are driven by a desire to get into the world of wild animals and know them better or create more space for the activities of human beings.

In the desire of the human beings to settle in varied places whereby there is nature and experience the type of environment they need, they end up making the bio-diversity their home whereby they both live together with the other bio-diversity. Therefore human beings are willing to make sure that biodiversity does not just exist but also supports them in all manner of things possible. However, of focus here is the settlement of human beings. The population of human beings continues to grow every day. Therefore, with the increasing population every day, human beings are sometimes forced by circumstances to clear trees, destroy bio-diversity and make themselves places to live in as the available spaces and areas are not easily possible for them to live due to excess numbers of people. However, apart from the settlement issues, human beings are sometimes just attracted to living in areas that are green or rather full of wildlife. Therefore they end up encroaching the few available forests, destroying bio-diversity, and finding places to stay in.

Apart from settlement, another human activity that leads to the destruction of bio-diversity to a great extent is the farming and production of foods by human beings. Therefore, this practice, even though very beneficial to human existence, leads to the clearing of large portions of land to cultivate and produce foods. This is an important practice, and therefore the best thing to do is to make sure that the food production does not conflict with the bio-diversity to such a great extent that the balance which exists in the world is no longer available. Still, only one group of bio-diversity is enjoying while another group of bio-diversity suffers due to the practices of human beings.

There are other reasons for human encroachment like profit maximization from natural resources, mismanagement of forests, among other issues. However, the effects of human encroachment on the natural environment and his destruction of bio-diversity are becoming a serious issue in the current world. Therefore, it has very many varied products and has many effects on the biodiversity destroyed and disturbed and the human being, the general life cycle, and very many aspects of the world.

The destruction of the life cycle of the ecosystem, which is destroyed by human beings, is a big issue and has very many effects. The plants, the animals, and the general composure of the intact environment have a very high level of dependency on each other. Therefore, different parts of the ecosystem are destroyed when a person decides to invade this balanced system and introduce new players (Smith-Spark). This means a big disruption of how the different parts of this system will function after the interruption. One of the major effects of human encroachment into wildlife is the loss of the habitat of very many animals which depend on the forests as their places to stay. Therefore this becomes a very great danger as with the loosing of the habitat, there is a likelihood that these animals will have to suffer and even die before they can get a new habitat. Therefore this is a sensitive issue which even though being addressed, is not yet fully settled.

When human beings encroach the habitat of the animals and other types of biodiversity, there is competition for food. Therefore this leads to the animals having less food for them to depend on, and consequently, some of them die. Thus, human beings can be described as greedy since a person may have everything they need for the sake of having a good life. However, with the desire to pile up more and more, they end up going into a conflict with the rest of the bio-diversity over what should be left untouched. With the competition for food, there is a disruption of the food chain of the animals as when the human beings get into the system. There is a likelihood of the animals having a very difficult time before fully adapting to the new system (Ahmet et al. 2283).

With the destruction of bio-diversity by human beings, the effects of this destruction face the human beings when at the same time they face the bio-diversity which has been destroyed. Some of these effects include global warming, infectious diseases, among other products (David et al., 05). global warming, for instance, is a very sensitive and important aspect of the world today, and this is an advancing issue and, therefore, a problem to the whole world. It leads to the melting of ice in the corners of the earth and bringing in the greenhouse effect on the lives of human beings. On the other hand, infectious disease is becoming too many, and all this is due to human beings destroying the environment and getting into conflicts with nature. According to Wilkinson et al. (02), most of the infectious diseases faced by humanity today, like the novel Ebola and coronavirus, are all linked to the human activity of the destruction of bio-diversity(David A. et al., 10). Therefore this is an issue that needs an urgent solution. Otherwise, the interaction between human beings and nature or wildlife will lead to even more devastating problems and issues that will go further to affect human beings adversely, just like the coronavirus and Ebola virus pandemics have affected the lives of human beings.

There are different and many ways that are being used to respond and address this challenge. One of the most important desires of human beings is to ensure that the wildlife and bio-diversity are properly taken care of, and this is done through different ways like the US government has an incentive manner of protecting the environment whereby bio-diversity is expected to thrive because of their quality of being free from human encroachment (David J et al., 197). The United States has introduced this manner of taking care of the environment because 70% of the area can be preserved and contains most of the animals owned by individuals. Therefore giving them incentives for the sake of the government to work in their land portions for research purposes aimed at making the bio-diversity better makes things easier and better for the restoration of bio-diversity efforts (David J et al., 197).

Education among the individuals about the importance of keeping the environment clean and not encroaching eh wildlife I also being carried out has had a lot of positive impacts. Therefore this is seen as a proof way of ending the destruction of bio-diversity. Other possible ways to end the destruction of bio-diversity are informing people of the ability to be satisfied with what they have and not to go destroying bio-diversity in efforts to make more money and acquire more.

In conclusion, therefore, the issue of loss of biodiversity and habitat is a very serious one as its effects are very commonly visible in the lives of each person. Consequently, it is important to keep on protecting the bio-diversity in the best manner possible and make sure that the human-wildlife conflict does not lead to devastating effects.

Works cited

Hunt, H. W., and D. H. Wall. “Modelling the effects of loss of soil biodiversity on ecosystem function.” Global Change Biology 8.1 (2002): 33-50.

Kilinc, Ahmet, et al. “School students’ conceptions about biodiversity loss: definitions, reasons, results, and solutions.” Research in Science Education 43.6 (2013): 2277-2307.

Lewis, David J., et al. “The efficiency of voluntary incentive policies for preventing biodiversity loss.” Resource and Energy Economics 33.1 (2011): 192-211.

Smith-Spark, Laura. “Habitat and Species Loss Leaves Just 3% of World’s Land Ecosystems Intact — Study.” CNN, Cable News Network, 15 Apr. 2021, edition.cnn.com/2021/04/15/world/intact-ecosystems-report-intl/index.html.

Wilkinson, David A., et al. “Habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and the risk of novel infectious disease emergence.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15.149 (2018): 20180403.