If we do not reverse the current trend with diminishing biodiversity, we simply threaten our own existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, one million animals and plant species are threatened with extinction\u00a0and everyday species are lost to never come back. It is both a sad and scary thought, but did you know that biodiversity is a prerequisite for human survival?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nature, as we know it, is dependent on a huge variety of life forms \u2013 different habitats, a big variety of species, and a great genetic variation within the species \u2013 for the earth\u2019s ecosystem to function. If the diversity is threatened, the ecosystems that gives us clean water, crops, and fertile soils would simply collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deforestation is one of the reasons why biodiversity is threatened. When forests are harvested to become arable land for a single crop or tree plantings with a single tree species,\u00a0many species disappear and off goes with them vital functions, such as pollination and water purification. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If we do not reverse the current trend with diminishing biodiversity, we simply threaten our own existence. Today, one million animals and plant species are threatened with extinction\u00a0and everyday species…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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