PERSPECTIVES ON BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND THE CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Journal Title: ASIAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL & APPLIED SCIENCES - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The need to preserve and conserve biodiversity is a contemporary issue at the local, national and global levels. Biodiversity is a major source of food, clothing, shelter and other necessities of life. The resources include agriculture, forestry, fisheries, pastorial activities and the ecological complexes in which they occur. This research relies mainly on secondary sources of data. Thus, the article describes the varieties of species, their relative frequency, their genetic diversity and their ecological complexes. These means of livelihood are depreciating all over the world in Nigeria at unprecedented rate. Therefore, this paper examines the reasons why species are rare, vulnerable, endangered or extinct. The study identifies the natural causes of biodiversity loss as development within the gene pool, environmental failure, as well as inter-specific competition and substitution. Findings from the study revealed that the anthropogenic causes of biodiversity loss include dangerous agricultural practices, lumbering, forestry, grazing, bush burning, urbanization and industrialisation among others. The article describes biodiversity loss as a challenge to sustainable development. Hence, it recommends educational, environmental, regional, posterity, institutional, ecological and simultaneous approaches for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
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Ibimilua Foyeke Omoboye
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