What is meant by biodiversity? List two advantages of conserving forests and wildlife.
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Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of species of plants, animals and microorganisms in a natural habitat within a particular environment.
Two reasons each of conserving:
(a) Forest
(i) It helps in retaining the sub-soil water.
(ii) It checks flood.
(b) Wildlife
(i) To maintain ecological equilibrium.
(ii) To protect the nature.
Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.
Two advantages of Conserving forest and wildlife:
1. Forest gives us numerous things like food,fruit,wood,gum and oxygen.
2. We should conserve wildlife to maintain the proper balance of food web