Biodiversity PPT Prepared by Krishna Sastry Durbha For Green Earth Organisation, Anaparthy

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Biodiversity
What is it? Why is it important? Threats to biodiversity Impact on human life Future
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Biodiversity What is it?

What do you think biodiversity is? Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth and the essential interdependence of all living things What do you think biodiversity is?
Types of Biodiversity
1.
2. 3.
Genetic diversity
Species diversity Ecosystem diversity
1.
Genetic diversity - genetic variability or diversity within a species Paddy 88,000 varieties Mangoes 5000 varieties
2.Species diversity - diversity between different species
Felis domestica
Felis tigris
3. Ecosystem diversity diversity within a region Plains to Hills and Valleys
Facts on Resources - Worldwide
Total Land Area of Earth 150 m. sq.km Forest Cover 38 m. sq.km (25%) 40% of Global Forest Land is in South America, Africa, and South Asia.
Facts on Resources - Worldwide
There are 5 million to 100 million species on earth. Only 1.9 million species have been catalogued so far. There are 34 recognised Hotspots in the world.
Facts on Resources - India Land area - 3.3 m. sq. km India occupies 2.47% of Worlds land area and has only 1% of the forest India has 16% of world human population
and 15% of cattle population

Forest Cover in India 23.6%
India and Biodiversity India is sharing 12.5% of worlds biodiversity India has 3.9% of grasslands, 2.0% of hot deserts, 4.1 m. ha of wetland ecosystems. India is the 7th largest country in the world and one among the 17 mega diversity centers.
India and Biodiversity India recorded :

45,000 + species of wild plants
89,000 + species of wild animals At least 320 species of wild relatives of crops have been originated here.
India and Biodiversity
In India: 1,39,000 species of plants, animals and microbes are recorded
More than 4 lakh species are yet to be identified There are three mega centers of endemism and 26 micro centers of endemism
Hotspots
1. Endemism
(0.5% or 1500 species of the worlds 3 Lakh Plant species as endemics should be present)
2. Degree of Threat Hotspots of India Three

1. Western Ghats 2. Eastern Himalayas 3. Indo-Burma region
Hotspots
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady. Edward O. Wilson
Why Biodiversity is important?

What do we get from biodiversity? Oxygen Food Clean Water Medicine Aesthetics Ideas

1.Commercial value : Oil, Fertilizers etc. extracted from species of plants and animals. 2.Biological value: Pollination, Soil formation, Nutrient enrichment 3.Recreational Value: Can not be measured in terms of money. 4. Aesthetic Value: Art, Poetry, Literature. 5.Scientific Value: Gene Pool, Evolution, Human Welfare, etc.
Provides food, fodder, fruit, fuel, timber, medicine

Above all Nature has been a great inspiration to most of the inventions helping human life today.
Bio-mimicry
Threats to Biodiversity 1
Deforestation and overgrazing Agricultural expansion Forest fires including smoking in the woods. Spreading urbanization and establishment of industries
Over-exploitation of the resources. Pollution of various kinds and release of toxic substances. Construction of hydro-electric power projects Mining activities and quarrying.
Habitat destruction and fragmentation of the area. Poaching / hunting for flesh, fur, skin, horn, nail and recreation. Natural calamities like floods, high wind velocities, earthquakes, etc.,. Soil erosion and loss of soil nutrients.
Population pressure and unequal distribution of the resources Invasive /introduced species push out natives Climatic changes - depletion of ozone, global warming, increased levels of CO2, etc. Movie Clipping Lack of awareness.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
Impact of Loss Of Biodiversity

Global warming and climate change
Increased pollution Soil erosion and loss of fertility Decomposition rate by microbes is altered Nutrient cycling is altered
Impact of Loss Of Biodiversity

Reduces gene pool - affects speciation Food chain is altered Alteration in Hydrologic Cycle
Biodiversity has Intrinsic Value

Intrinsic Value = Something that has value in and of itself
Biodiversity also has utilitarian Value

Utilitarian Value = the value something has as a means to anothers end.
Utilitarian values include: Goods Services Information

Value of a Tree
A tree that lives for 50 years: Generates Rs. 5.3 lakhs worth of oxygen Facilitates Rs. 6.4 lakhs worth of soil erosion control
Controls air pollution - Service worth Rs.10lakhs

Provides Rs. 5.3 lakhs worth of shelter for birds and animals
Value of a Tree
Recycles Rs. 6.5 lakhs worth of fertility
Besides provide flower, fruits and timber

Think before you cut down a tree it is worth more than Rs. 34 lakhs.
FUTURE
FUTURE
Future is in our hands. Protect it by behaving responsibly. Save our Earth.

FUTURE
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Natural Resources
Indestructible Destructible Renewable Air Water Soil Forest Wildlife
Non-renewable
Minerals
What can we do to conserve?

Buy Local Buy Fresh Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Live and let live Love Nature Encourage Endemics Stay away from chemicals Plant more trees
Be the CHANGE that you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
One Last Word

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Live and let live Love Nature Plant more trees
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Biodiversity What is it?

Facts on Resources - Worldwide

Facts on Resources - Worldwide

and 15% of cattle population

India and Biodiversity India recorded :

India and Biodiversity

In India: 1,39,000 species of plants, animals and microbes are recorded

2. Degree of Threat Hotspots of India Three

Why Biodiversity is important?

Why Biodiversity is important?

Provides food, fodder, fruit, fuel, timber, medicine

Why Biodiversity is important?

Impact of Loss Of Biodiversity

Impact of Loss Of Biodiversity

Biodiversity has Intrinsic Value

Biodiversity also has utilitarian Value

Utilitarian values include: Goods Services Information

Controls air pollution - Service worth Rs.10lakhs

Besides provide flower, fruits and timber

Future is in our hands. Protect it by behaving responsibly. Save our Earth.

What can we do to conserve?

Be the CHANGE that you want to see in the world.

One Last Word

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