The world's forests house about half of global biodiversity.
The smallest Disterbence to eco-system can have a Domino effect that affects us all.
Protecting biodiversity is as much about protecting the endangered species.
As a result of deforestation, habitat destruction, pollution, overfishing and other factors, more plants and animals are nearing extinction.
Why The Loss In Biodiversity?
1 | Climate change
It refers to Heat waves, droughts, flooding, storms, and rising sea levels.These are some of the happenings we’re seeing from climate change.
2 | Deforestation
The depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere is big reason behind displacement of wildlife. Deforestation is one cause of depleting oxygen.
3 | Pollution
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3.7 million deaths a year (according to a 2012 study) has been caused by “air pollution, is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk.” Pollution poisons soil and waterways, kills plants, and harms humans and animals.
4 | Loss in marine life
Heavily populated coastal regions like North America’s Gulf Coast where there are lots of chemicals in the water, dead zones occur in the ocean. Oxygen levels in the water down and marine life cannot survive.Our oceans are polluted and overexploited. More than 70 percent of marine fisheries are depleted.
5 | Habitat loss
Our planet's history, of course, due to altered life on Earth in the long run — ecosystems have come and gone and species routinely go extinct
Habitat loss is caused by deforestation, overpopulation, pollution, and global warming.
What is Biodiversity Loss ?
1 | Biodiversity loss disintegrate the functioning of ecosystems, exposed them to disorder and less able to supply services that humans needed. It has a direct impact on lives of Earth, stimulating health of the planet. Thay can reduce the possibility of resources short supply, a major distress upcoming for us. Simply, reduced biodiversity means millions of people face a future where food supplies are not sufficient to meet our needs, fresh water is in irregular supply. Human life would be unsustainable.
How Forest Care Us?
1 | Forests cover about one-third of the Earth's land area. Acting as a sort of green lung, they produce oxygen and store large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, this method counteracting global warming.
Forests provide habitats for multitude flora and fauna species - support the subsistence of millions of people.
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Wikipedia
Evolution
Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period (around 165–150 million years ago) The Evidence known fossil is archaeopteryx, which was about the size of a crow.. They’re small, lightweight, feathered, and winged body, became gradually over tens of millions of years of evolution.
Family GAVIIDAE: Divers, Loons
Aquatic birds superficially resembling grebes but not very closely related to them. Toes fully webbed not
lobed or scalloped. Plumage dense, compact and harsh. Tarsi reticulate, laterally compressed. Legs short and set far back, almost at end. Wings short, narrow and tapering, set well back. Seen singly or in pairs.
Frequent lakes, ponds and slow-flowing rivers in summer; essentially marine in winter. Skilled divers and swimmers. Take wing reluctantly and with some difficulty, but once airborne, their flight is powerful and swift.
Sexes: alike (winter) | dimorphic (summer). Breeding (Extralimital).
Family PODICIPITIDAE: Grebes
Aquatic birds with soft rudimentary tail, very small wings, and compressed sharply pointed bill. Legs placed far back, especially adapted for diving and swimming. Tarsi scutellated in front, laterally compressed.Front toes with broad lateral vane-like lobes. Hind toe small, raised, vertically lobed. Nails broad and flattened. Plumage dense and silky. Loath to fly, rise with effort, but once airborne can fly strongly, oftenlong distances. Said to have a habit of eating own feathers and feeding them to the young, probably to aiddigestion. Nest, a mass of water weeds with a central depression or floatingmound of grass and rubbish, loosely anchored to reeds or the substrate. Incubation by both sexes. Downyyoung boldly striped blackish and white.
Sexes: seasonally (dimorphic).
Family PROCELLARIIDAE: Petrels and Shearwaters
Sea birds of varying sizes and coloration, from myna to goose and of white, grey, brown, black plumage,
or combinations of these. Bill short and stout to longish and slender, covered with horny plates, hooked at
tip. Nostrils tubular. Wings narrow, long and pointed, with first primary longest and secondaries short.
Tarsus short to medium, slender, laterally compressed, reticulated. Feet webbed, with strong hindclaw.
Tail short, rounded. Nest, a sand burrow excavated beneath scrub roots, near the shore. Incubation presumably by both sexes.
sexes: alike.
Family HYDROBATIDAE: Storm Petrels
The smallest sea buds, from about sparrow to myna in size, of blackish or greyish plumage, mostly with a white rump. Wings long; tail medium to long; neck short. Bill slender, of medium length, grooved, hooked at tip. Nostrils tubular with a single orifice. Legs slender, medium to long; feet webbed, mostly black. Webs black or particoloured. Feed by ‘waking’ or ‘bopping’ on the water with wings fluttering and held slightly above line of back, long legs dangling, feet paddling, head bent low and bill touching the surface. Nest in crevices in cliffs.
Sexes: alike
Family PHAETHONTIDAE: Tropic-birds
Tropical sea birds superficially resembling terns but morphologically closer to cormorants and frigate
birds. Plumage chiefly white and black. Head large; neck short; bill yellow or orange-red, longish, stout,
decurved and pointed. Wings long and pointed. Tail wedge-shaped with the middle pair of feathers in
adults narrow, ribbon-like and much elongated. Legs short; feet webbed. Nest, under shelter
of a ledge of rock or in a crevice. A single egg is laid, curiously like that of raptors. Young hatch covered
with down.
Sexes: dike
Family PELECANIDAE: Pelicans
Large, gregarious, squat and clumsy fish-eating birds with short sturdy legs and large webbed feet. Tarsus compressed and reticulate in front. Wings large and broad; tail short, square and soft. Characteristic of the Family is the long heavy bill with the upper mandible flamned and hook-tipped and the lower consisling
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