Nature is the best mother that the world can turn to when the other artificial means of productivity prove difficult. One of the best ways to tap the wealth of nature is through biodiversity measures towards a friendly environment while doing secure production activities. There are a number of economic values of biodiversity as discussed below:

Source of food

Biodiversity is a very probable way of generating enough food for the ever increasing human population. The world needs to domesticate more animal species and crops as a way of increasing food supply. Wild species of both animals and plants are very resistant to adverse weather conditions. This minimizes the losses that farmers incur incase of less rainfall and instead increases food as well as animal productivity. It is the high time to counter the rampant occurrences of hunger by adopting biodiversity. Read the full story

The term “biodiversity” is relatively new, conceived in 1985 by merging two words – biological diversity. At the symposium in 1986 after the publication of the book “Biodiversity” (Wilson 1986), whose editor was biologist EO Wilson, accepted the use of the word and its concepts. But why are we interested in the term biodiversity? The answer is simple. In recent decades the world has begun to growingly lose species and habitats at an alarming rate. Why? This was mostly due to human activities. It is very difficult to answer the question how many species we lost. Specifically, we do not really know the final number of species that exist on the planet, because new species are found every day.

Biodiversity is different for given ecosystems, and it is important to conserve biological diversity at the highest levels in the ecosystems. Biodiversity is something that we should not be playing with because biodiversity is 4 billion years of the evolution of numerous species. We should remember that one thing is for sure and that is that nature knows best, as unlike us humans, nature has time and the experience to make the things as they must be. Read the full story

Biodiversity is, as far as science can tell, one of the most unique aspects of Earth as a planet. While astronomers hope to find Earthlike planets out in the galaxy, as far as Earth’s solar system is concerned, it contains all of the biodiversity orbiting the Sun. Read the full story

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, or on Earth more generally. Maintaining biodiversity is important for many reasons, not least of which are the many direct benefits to humankind. Biodiversity tends to be closely tied in the popular imagination with philosophical or purely environmentalist ethics, but there are a number of very practical reasons to support biodiversity conservation. Read the full story

Biodiversity can have three general meanings. (see http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/environment/biodiversity/ for more information) First, it can be used to describe the complexity of biological species that populate a specific ecosystem. At a macro level, biodiversity is influenced by the natural environmental features found within an ecosystem. These features may include lakes, oceans, forests, mountains, deserts, and swamps. Within these macro-environmental features there usually exists overlapping or distinct micro-ecosystems. Read the full story