Why Conservation of Biodiversity is Important

Biodiversity is basically, “the variation of life on earth”. This variation includes all stages from genetic variation of species to the ecological variations. As existence of life on earth is about 3.5 billion years old, biodiversity which we observe today is a result of evolution of this much time.

Causes of biodiversity:

Unfortunately, due to our contribution in creating disturbances in natural environment by pollution, exploitation of natural resources and indefensible development, we are degrading the ecosystem at a record rate. As a result of these natural disorders we are undergoing sixth extinction crisis on this planet. According to a study, current species extinction rate is between 1000 and 10,000 times larger than it would naturally be.

Why to conserve biodiversity?

The question is why it is important to conserve biodiversity?  Biodiversity conservation is actually saving life on earth in all its forms. It’s all about keeping natural ecosystem healthy and effective. In order to conserve biodiversity, we people should aware; to what extent we are dependent on natural ecosystem and biodiversity.

Biodiversity is life:

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that biodiversity is the keystone of our existence of life on earth. In simple words, biodiversity is life. There are about 80,000 of plants species that are edible, and you would be surprised to know that 90% of world’s food come from only 20 of these species. Hundreds of medicines from plants like penicillin, aspirin, quinine and taxol have saved lives of millions of people

To conserve biodiversity is to conserve life:

Biodiversity is our life support system. From air we breathe to the water we drink and the food we eat, we are wholly dependent on it. Conservation of it is the conservation of life and nature as well. About biodiversity, it is said that “Biodiversity is the way, so don’t let nature go astray”.

As we look deep into the picture, we will see that the connection between biodiversity and our future is closer and closer. Literally, we need to conserve biodiversity in order to live on this planet.