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The cause of most of the biodiversity loss is, generally speaking, human activities that push the planetary boundaries too far. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These activities include habitat destruction [ 4 ] (for example deforestation ) and land use intensification (for example monoculture farming).
Habitat fragmentation and loss are considered as being the main cause of the loss of biodiversity and degradation of the ecosystem all over the world. Human actions are greatly responsible for habitat fragmentation, and loss as these actions alter the connectivity and quality of habitats.
[1] [2] Habitat destruction is in fact the leading cause of biodiversity loss and species extinction worldwide. [3] Humans contribute to habitat destruction through the use of natural resources, agriculture, industrial production and urbanization (urban sprawl). Other activities include mining, logging and trawling. Environmental factors can ...
Biodiversity – the richness and variety of all life on Earth – is declining everywhere, largely as a result of human actions, with "direct and dire impacts" on food security and nutrition ...
Biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health risks and climate change are all interconnected in ways that amplify each other and accelerate their devastating global impacts.
Exploitation of Earth’s natural resources and climate change are devastating the planet's biodiversity 5 ways humans are destroying biodiversity
Today, the ongoing Holocene extinction is caused primarily by human impact on the environment, and the greatest biodiversity loss so far had been due to habitat degradation and fragmentation, which eventually destroys entire ecosystems if left unchecked. [9]
Because of the impact of humans on the natural environment in the recent geological period, the term ecological crisis is often applied to environmental issues caused by human civilizations such as: the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution which have emerged as major global challenges during the first few decades of the 21st ...