Three Types Of Biodiversity

In america each person generates around 4.3 pounds of garbage daily harming and threatening the world 's biodiversity. There are three types of biodiversity including biodiversity ecosystem, species biodiversity, and genetic biodiversity. All three are fairly self explanatory, ecosystem biodiversity is all the ecosystems within a region of Earth, species biodiversity is all the organisms within an ecosystem, and genetic biodiversity is the different subsets of an organism like a white bunny or a grey one. Biodiversity is so important to remain protected because the more we have of it the larger chance that what the Earth has today will remain for generations to come to discover and not simply in the form of history textbooks. Unfortunately …show more content…
Adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere is one action done by humans that causes threats to biodiversity. Human factories are causing serious damage in ecosystems all around the world, as it warms many regions on Earth. According to the National Wildlife Federation many of these factories are burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, or gasoline. When these fuels are burned they release a gas into the atmosphere, this gas is carbon dioxide (Co2) and is one of the biggest contributors to …show more content…
Humans are using up more resources than are being restored harming the organisms that rely on these resources. According to Theworldcounts.com humans are using enough resorses to sustqain the demands of the currewnt population of 7.2 billion people but earths total resorses are only good for around 2 billion people to live off of. The way that humans are living we are using around three times more resources than are supplied for us as humans. While these resources are good for us as humans to live off the ones we choose to use are some of the most damaging to the environment. One of the most damaging resources humans overuse is trees. To humans trees supply heat, paper, and more, but to the organisms that live in forests like the amazon rainforest the results are horrific. According to National Geographic 's article Farming The Amazon’ In only the past forty years around twenty percent of the trees and vegetation have been destroyed. The reason for this is to clear area to build new buildings and/or to gather lumber that will boost the local country 's economy with the export. All by themselves these three things would be a great thing to have if it didn’t come with the consequences that come with them. Also according to greenpeace.org article ‘Illegal timber from the Brazilian Amazon sold all over the world’ around and estimated 78% of the timber that is logged by ParState, Brazils largest timber