Bagarinao, Teodora (1997) Nature matters, the AQD museum and biodiversity garden, and the environment action group. SEAFDEC Asian Aquaculture, Vol.19 (2). pp. 9-10. ISSN 0115-4974
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Biological diversity is rapidly diminishing in forest, upland, and coastal environments in the Philippines and throughout the world. The primary cause of loss of biodiversity is not direct human exploitation or malevolence, but the habitat destruction and modification that inevitably result from the expansion of human population and human activities. From an estimated 12 million hectares of old-growth forests in the 1930s, the Philippines has barely 700,000 ha at present. As a result, animal and plant species have gone extinct, including 60% of the endemic flora. The extinction of populations and species exerts its primary impact on society through the impairment of ecosystem functions, that is, the loss of the free services (such as photosynthesis, pollination, and decomposition) rendered by plants, animals, and microorganisms.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Forests, Coastal Environment, Philippines, Habitat, Species, Population, Biodiversity, Environment, Mangroves, Coastal Zones |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2022 06:20 |
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2022 06:20 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/12861 |
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