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Biodiversity’, or biological diversity, refers to the variety of plants, animals and microorganisms that exist, the genes they contain and the ecosystems they live in.
Living in the lowland tropics we are blessed with abundant biodiversity. Tropical areas are known to have more species per unit area than temperate areas and biodiversity decreases with increasing altitudes. Consider, for example, the mixture of species in our forests compared with temperate forests which tend to be dominated by one species, and compare our Main Ridge with, as an extreme, the snow swept Alps.
The status of our biodiversity in Tobago, as elsewhere, has always been dynamic. Over millions of years, under natural conditions, some species have increased in variety or numbers and others have been reduced or lost. Some people wonder why we should be worried about conserving biodiversity now, in particular, when the world has gone on more or less as it is for so long. But natural habitats everywhere are being assaulted as never before and as habitats are lost we are also losing various types of plants and animals. No one would have thought, even a few years ago, that the common house sparrow of Britain could be endangered, but now it is. With the rapid changes we are seeing in Tobago, there are concerns that man-made changes to our environment are leading to too many of our species being lost and our biodiversity becoming seriously depleted.
Living in the lowland tropics we are blessed with abundant biodiversity. Tropical areas are known to have more species per unit area than temperate areas and biodiversity decreases with increasing altitudes. Consider, for example, the mixture of species in our forests compared with temperate forests which tend to be dominated by one species, and compare our Main Ridge with, as an extreme, the snow swept Alps.
The status of our biodiversity in Tobago, as elsewhere, has always been dynamic. Over millions of years, under natural conditions, some species have increased in variety or numbers and others have been reduced or lost. Some people wonder why we should be worried about conserving biodiversity now, in particular, when the world has gone on more or less as it is for so long. But natural habitats everywhere are being assaulted as never before and as habitats are lost we are also losing various types of plants and animals. No one would have thought, even a few years ago, that the common house sparrow of Britain could be endangered, but now it is. With the rapid changes we are seeing in Tobago, there are concerns that man-made changes to our environment are leading to too many of our species being lost and our biodiversity becoming seriously depleted.
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