Biodiversity Updated!

Biodiversity encompasses the variety of life and the interactions among life. The scope of biodiversity is usually considered to range from the genetic variation of individual organisms within and among populations of a species, to different species occurring together in ecological communities. Biodiversity ranges from local to regional, state or provincial, national, continental, and ultimately to global.

Human activities affect biodiversity. This is one of the most important aspects of the global environmental crisis. Humans have already caused permanent losses of biodiversity through the extinction of many species and extensive losses of distinctive, natural ecosystems. Ecologists predict that unless there are substantial changes in the ways that humans affect ecosystems, more significant biodiversity loss will occur in the near future....