Biodiversity

What Is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the variety of different types of life found on earth. It is a measure of the
variety of organisms present in different ecosystems

What Is Island Biodiversity?

Island Biodiversity is lands isolated by surrounding water and with a high proportion of
coast to hinterland; stipulates that they must be populated, separated from the
mainland by a distance of at least two kilometres, and measure between 0.15 square
kilometres and the size of Greenland. Islands boast a truly unique assemblage of life.
Species become island dwellers either by drifting on islands, like castaways, as they
break off from larger landmasses or by dispersing across the ocean to islands newly
emerged from the ocean floor.
What is the Importance of Biodiversity?
Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all
have an important role to play. For example, a larger number of plant species means a
greater variety of crops. Greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life
forms.

What Are Threats To Biodiversity?

Biodiversity is under serious threat as a result of human activities. The main
dangers worldwide are population growth and resource consumption, climate change and
global warming, habitat conversion and urbanisation, invasive alien species, overexploitation of natural resources and environmental degradation.

What does threatened and endangered mean?

An endangered species is one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a
significant portion of its range. A threatened species is one that is likely to
become endangered in the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its
range.

How is this different from extinct?

Extinct Is different to threatened and endangered as extinct means that there is no more
species left and endangered means there are limited amounts of a species left.

How do we protect biodiversity? Name and explain all the strategies.

We can protect biodiversity by not overpopulating and making sure that we do not
pollute, By making sure there is no habitat loss, having habitat corridors, having
reintroduction programmes and animal rights.

What examples of endangered species are given in the video? What is being
done to help these species?
The government signed an agreement to not fund any labs that are harming any of these
endangered or threatened species and making it illegal to kill any of these endangered or
threatened species. Some Examples of endangered species are California Condor,
Przewalskis Horse, The American Alligator, Homerus Swallowtail Butterfly, Scimitarhorned Oryx and The Tibetan Yak.