Biodiversity and Conservation

Biodiversity is the branch of biology that deals with the diversity within species, between species and in ecosystems.

Biodiversity is essential to ecosystem functioning and human well-being. It provides food, fiber, medicines, clean water and fresh air.

It helps regulate water cycles and climate patterns, including rainfall. The loss of biodiversity also creates the conditions for global warming to occur.

Biodiversity is a system in constant evolution, from a view point of species, as well as from view point of an individual organism. Biodiversity is not found evenly on the earth.

Biodiversity itself is a combination of two words, Bio (life) and diversity (variety). In simple terms, biodiversity is the number and variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region

It refers to the varieties of plants, animals and micro-organisms, the genes they contain and the ecosystems they form. It relates to the variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between the species and that within and between the ecosystems.