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The importance of biodiversity Importance of biodiversity is a fairly new topic that has been gaining considerable attention as the awareness of the significance of natural ecosystems and environments increases. There is thus a new approach to conserve our environment as opposed to merely utilize and diminish it (Silvert 2006, de Vere 2008, Malhotra 2012). This was brought to attention in the 1900s by literature such as “Our Plundered Planet” by Fairfield Osborn. In the 1960s there were many…

Insect biodiversity is very large and they are responsible for more than half of the population of eukaryote on the planet. It is approximately 900,000 species of insects have been described and recorded. Insects belong to phylum Arthropoda and class Insecta. Five orders of insects with high species richness include Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. Insects basic morphology are three pairs of legs, a segmented body divided into three (head, thorax and abdomen) or two,…

Holmes Rolston III is a very important philosopher when studying environmental ethics and believes humans as a species need to protect our planet and its inhabitants from development no matter what cost. Environmental preservation has been a very controversial topic, but while we decide what to do about it, we are also destroying what is left of the wilderness. The United Nations has released many declarations on the matter, but to no avail. Regarding Rolston’s argument, Robin Attfield…

Endangered Species Imagine the world where species are dying because they couldn’t find food because there food is extinct. The world would turn into chaos just because of one species. So if the government could save that one endangered species then we could stop the world from going into chaos. Endangered species have a huge impact on the world and if they go extinct it can mess up everything. “Endangered species does not just refer to wildlife but rather any living organism whether in the air…

Wildlife crime is a particular group of crime. It does not fit "clean" into the different traditional groups, or labeling, often used to describe crimes. groups such as those against people or property crimes. wildlife crimes are sometimes thought about/believed to be victimless because an (able to be seen or picked out) hurt party or victim, at least in the form of a human being, is not present or filing a complaint. However, it has been argued that in the case of wildlife crime, like other…

This year on Father’s Day my children took me to the Brevard Zoo. I was very excited to go, for this would be my first time seeing it. I have lived in Brevard county over twenty years of my life and somehow never managed the time to visit . A zoo is a place where different kinds of animals are kept and maintained with purpose of Educating the public about the varieties of animals and birds that exist all over the world, including our country. On our visit I observed that by going to the zoo,…

ecosystem has a purpose. For example, People have always hunted mammals- for food, sport, fur, and their antlers and horns. Mammals are also trapped for zoos and biomedical research. Illegal hunting especially threatens large predators such as tigers, rhinoceros, and bears, whose body parts are greatly valued in some parts of the world. These animals are important for their ecosystems to thrive. Without these predators, some species, such as deer or zebras may overpopulate. This can lead to a…

Palm oil is an essential ingredient for the production of foods and products which human utilise daily. Orangutan Project states ‘palm oil is derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree’, while stating how palm oil plantations is the main cause for deforestation in Indonesia. The harvest of the palm trees for the production of palm oil affects the ecosystem as it affects the environment. This investigation will highlight the advantages of the palm fruit providing nutrients, it being essential…

geography 2012). The country is richly furnished with natural resources including gold, diamonds, metals and minerals. The biodiversity in South African is astounding and includes many of the typical animals you’d expect to find in Africa, lions, rhinoceros, giraffes and hippopotami. Along with the great variety of animals, South African has more than 20,000 different plants, or about 10% of all the known species of plants on Earth (Wikipedia, South Africa…

Endangered species are organisms that have such a reduced population that they are threatened with extinction. There are thousands of different species that are included in this list. Millions of years before humans existed, causes of extinction of living things were mostly linked to geological and climate effects (environmental change). Even though, environmental change is still the primary root for the extinction of organisms, but now the process of extinction is accelerated by human…