Biodiversity
Friday, 25 June 2010 13:14
Biodiversity is the biological diversity of the living world on our planet. Viewed in terms of diversity of:
• The type (microorganisms, fungi, plants and animals)
• Diversity of habitats (forests, meadows, wetlands)
• Genetic diversity.
With the loss of biodiversity species, ecosystems and genetic diversity, are disapearing, which of course affects the human population. A direct consequence of loss of biodiversity, as key preconditions for the maintenance of the food chain, is a change in the overall conditions for the survival of human kind.
Almost all human activities reduce biodiversity (industrialization, tourism, transport, forestry, etc.). and is therefore necessary to anticipate, monitor and prevent the extinction patterns of biological diversity in a given area.
Devastation of nature inevitably leads to lasting changes of not only the environment as natural habitat, species of organisms that inhabit it and their number, but also possibility of survival of human society. Since the beginning of the development of civilization, based on the exploitation of natural resources, changes caused by man leave an indelible mark.
Uncontrolled logging, huge fires all over the world, the negative atmospheric influences (directly contaminated air and soil and the ozone layer directly rolled and intense cosmic radiation) systematically and irreversibly destroy the only natural renewable source of oxygen on Earth as well as the most important barrier of torrents and floods.
It is estimated that about 45% of the original amount of forest on Earth were destroyed, mostly in the last century. Although it is partially restored, is rapidly disappearing. Cause and effect, changes of the regime of precipitation, transpiration, and all the factors that regulate a large expanse of forest as part of the balance necessary for the preservation of the environment, lead to permanent changes in the type and quality and other habitat, and thus to partial or complete loss of living conditions of many species .
Man, the only conscious being on the planet, is the main culprit for many of these changes. Even for those who are called natural disasters, since a large part of them came as a result of man’s activities. For some time many point to this problem.
However, just when they started to extinct and disappear completely, certain species, when it starts to be visible for the "naked eye" that because of all that, human beings will be quite threatened if they do not take drastic and urgent measures to change behavior, to limit the harmful effects of the industry and transport, undertaken in many countries and international institutions in activities that bring the legal regulation in the area of environmental protection.
Man implies (falsely and unfairly) himself master of his environment and heshows it in the worst possible way. However, slowly and patiently, but inexorably, nature shows who the real master is. Thus, all the damage that man makes, and that is reflected in the change in environmental quality, reducing biodiversity, extinction link in the food chain, genetic mutations, etc., is returned as a boomerang. It is obvious through the drastic change in conditions on Earth, primarily through a change of climate which is evident from year to year (mild rainy winters, floods).
Therefore, except for enumeration of species that are cute to the man which at his eyes disappear - tigers, elephants, pandas, whales, various species of birds, or devastating numbers such as 34 000 plant and 5200 animal species faced with extermination - the awareness is best to be affected by threats that are present due to the loss of biodiversity. And they are: We will remain without water, without food, without any basis for making drugs, we will die from unknown and horrible disease, we will get burnt by our sun - will disappear from the face of the Earth.
It is the time to pull over and change the attitude towards nature from the ground up in order to preserve nature and its biodiversity, which is an inseparable part of man. Everything he does to nature he does to himself.
Monitoring the status of biodiversity is aimed at its preservation, improvement and protection, and focused on monitoring the most representative species and habitats of international and national significance. Insight into the current state of biodiversity is achieved by monitoring endangered species and habitats which is a prerequisite for adequate care and activities.
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