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Name : Chaitanya Singh Pokhariya

Class : 8-G

Roll number : 14

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"Biodiversity is the variety of life forms and habitats in a given area, including the number and variety of organisms."

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Genetic Biodiversity

Species Biodiversity

Ecological Biodiversity

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The diversity of genes within a species is genetic diversity.

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Species diversity refers to the variety of different types of species found in a particular area.

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Ecological diversity refers to the variations in the plant and animal species living together and connected by food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.

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1. Maintaining the balance of the ecosystem: Helps in balancing the food chain and recycles the nutrition in the ecosystem.

2. Provision of biological resources: Provides us with food, oxygen, timber, medicinal plants ,etc.

3. Social benefits: Has cultural value and best for tourism.

4. Shelter to animals: It also provides shelter to wild animals.

5. Maintain the climate: Biodiversity limits the climate changes.

6. Soil formation: It promotes soil formation.

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Mass scale destruction for different purposes like construction of roads, houses, industries ,etc.

Increased hunting and poaching rates

Pollution of the environment mainly in the form of:-

1. Air pollution

2. Water pollution

3. Soil pollution

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Afforestation

Ban on hunting of endangered species

Checking of the environmental pollutions

Passing of several acts related to the environment and biodiversity, such the Fisheries Act 1897, the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, the Forest Conservation Act 1980, and the Biological Diversity Act 2002.

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Human actions are changing the diversity of life on Earth which represent a loss of biodiversity. In the past 50 years changes of biological diversity were more rapid. Human activities like hunting, pollution, and habitat loss are the main causes of modern extinctions. If we continue to exploit biodiversity they can become extinct. It is our duty to conserve and save the biodiversity.