Consequences of Destroying Natural Habitats

Consequences of Destroying Natural Habitats

  What is the meaning of habitat, what does it have to deal with the human life and what is the reason to focus more on protecting the habitat rather than destroying it to build futuristic buildings and skyscrapers to achieve the vision of the future. A habitat is a place natural place where plants, animals and other organisms live it is where they called home. This is the living area necessary for an ecosystem to remain healthy moreover the ecosystem benefits us in producing our daily needs for example like water and food. It is important that we must communicate with others so that they can regain their consciousness towards the natural habitats so that the living things are protected and be able to produce more of their species.

  There are three different types of habitation that can occur in the woods. The three main are actual destruction, fragmentation, and degradation. All three types of destruction are just as lethal as a weapon. Some take longer to completely destroy a habitat and some destroy the habitats in split seconds. Destruction is instant and the species have little to no time to adapt. The animals must move if they are to survive at all. Plants must adapt to the newly compacted land or find a way to disperse their seeds elsewhere. Instant destruction to habitats is when humans fill in wetlands. We fill in wetlands usually to construct other buildings, such as work spaces or houses. Sometimes it is the law that if you are filling in a wetland in one area, then you must create a new wetland area somewhere else.

  What will be the consequences when the natural habitats are lost or completely destroyed? It will be our indemnification because the habitats are beneficial to us in regulating the environment is amazingly well to keep itself in check it is vital for healthy ecosystems and are largely taken for granted.  Our air, water and food have been through a huge range of physical, chemical and biological interactions that are naturally regulated. The dispersal and dilution of pollutants, steady supply of clean water, protection of our coast, prevention of flooding, regulation of our climate through locking away of carbon, and pollination of crops are all governed by ‘regulators’ in the environment.

  On the other hand, this natural habitat is a source for wide range of resources that can be exploited for economical profits, for example woods are chopped down from forest and clean water is obtained from streams and rivers. However, there is also economic value in conserving natural habitats. Financial profit can be made out from tourist revenue, particularly in the tropical area where the diversity is high but the cost of repairing damaged ecosystems is considered to be much higher than conserving the natural habitats.

   Moreover, while habitats are destroyed for the growing needs of us animals, plants are losing their homes because of the increasing food production is a major agent for conversion of natural habitat into the expansion of agriculture land and intensive harvesting timber, wood, fuel and other forest products, s well as overgrazing thus habitat loss is probably the greatest threat to the variety of life in this planet today. Newspaper in this few days stated that crocodiles are seen across the road because they lost their habitat this is the main reason why the preservation of habitat is important to the living things so that they have a home to protect themselves from being endangered species. Another example, oil tanker shipment that transport fuel to another country or region might have leaked some of its fuel into the ocean and this may result in the extinction and destruction of the habitats to the marine life.