The Importance Of Biodiversity Loss

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Introduction Biodiversity loss has been a global concern throughout the past years. Biodiversity loss is a global concern, because there are about estimation one thousand species lost each year. Biodiversity loss has affected a lot of countries, mainly countries that has a wide range of land that are filled with tons of species, such as Brazil, China, and Indonesia. This problem has also affected a lot of people that are living in its surroundings are affected too. If this issue could not be stopped, it will pass down our generations, but there are also several possible ways to prevent this global issue to continue on.
Global Perspectives China is one of the largest countries in the world with the population of 1.357 billion. There are 2% …show more content…

Brazil is one of the countries that have the biggest rainforest that consists about 70% plants and there are about 20 primate species living in Brazil. Endangered animal has been also a main problem. There are about 202 endangered animals that are living in the forest. One cause of these animals to be endangered is deforestation, due to their habitat loss and food sources. The Brazil rainforest has a lot of types of insects, and everyday these species of insects became extinct, and there is one specific species that become extinct. There are animals and plants that become extinct without even being found yet. The rate of the animal and plant loss is starting to increase through out the years. The biggest genetic material can be found in Brazil. This issue represented a massive of economic loss of the genetic stock for the biotech industry and the science for all the people (Effects of Deforestation, N.P.). Loss of culture is also caused by deforestation. About 5 centuries ago, there are Ten million Indians living there. Then, now there are about one million Indians that still live in the forest of Brazil. Most of these native Indians are living deep in the forest and they never had contact with the outside world. From 215 ethnic group there are an estimation about 200 thousand people that are still around. This causes it to form 1,000 communities and each of them speaks different languages. There were …show more content…

The Brazilian government has been successful, and their succession has been really harsh to the people and the cultural need of the Indian people and problems like diseases. These communities has been loss through the forest because of deforestation (Effects of Deforestation, N.P.) Deforestation also causes a lot of Global Warming. These people are burning the forest of brazil and turn it into Agricultural Land, cutting down trees and then burn them are causing the rate of CO2 to increasing and causing a huge global warming. The release of the methane from the cattle which is stuck on the grasses that has replace the forest also contributes in a huge global warming problem (Effects of Deforestation,

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