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    The main causes of loss of biodiversity are habitat loss due to human activities like agriculture and development, invasive species that harm native ecosystems, and overexploitation of natural resources through unsustainable harvesting. Pollution from human sources is also a major threat, introducing contaminants that adversely impact the environment. Conservation efforts can help address these issues through actions like controlling invasive species, monitoring pets, and using native plants in landscaping.

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    The main causes of loss of biodiversity are habitat loss due to human activities like agriculture and development, invasive species that harm native ecosystems, and overexploitation of natural resources through unsustainable harvesting. Pollution from human sources is also a major threat, introducing contaminants that adversely impact the environment. Conservation efforts can help address these issues through actions like controlling invasive species, monitoring pets, and using native plants in landscaping.

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    The main causes of loss of biodiversity are habitat loss due to human activities like agriculture and development, invasive species that harm native ecosystems, and overexploitation of natural resources through unsustainable harvesting. Pollution from human sources is also a major threat, introducing contaminants that adversely impact the environment. Conservation efforts can help address these issues through actions like controlling invasive species, monitoring pets, and using native plants in landscaping.

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    Causes of loss of biodiversity

    Habitat loss—due to destruction, fragmentation, or degradation of habitat—is the


    primary threat to the survival of wildlife in the United States. When an ecosystem has
    been dramatically changed by human activities—such as agriculture, oil and gas
    exploration, commercial development, or water diversion—it may no longer be able to
    provide the food, water, cover, and places to raise young that wildlife need to survive.
    Every day there are fewer places left that wildlife can call home.

    An invasive species can be any kind of living organism—an amphibian (like the cane
    toad), plant, insect, fish, fungus, bacteria, or even an organism’s seeds or eggs—that is
    not native to an ecosystem and causes harm. They can harm the environment, the
    economy, or even human health. Species that grow and reproduce quickly, and spread
    aggressively, with potential to cause harm, are given the label “invasive.”

    An invasive species does not have to come from another country. For example, lake
    trout are native to the Great Lakes, but are considered to be an invasive species in
    Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming because they compete with native cutthroat trout for
    habitat.
    Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable
    resource to the point of diminishing returns. Continued overexploitation can lead to
    the destruction of the resource. The term applies to natural resources such as:
    wild medicinal plants, grazing pastures, game animals, fish stocks, forests, and water
    aquifers.
    In ecology, overexploitation describes one of the five main activities threatening
    global biodiversity.[2] Ecologists use the term to describe populations that are
    harvested at an unsustainable rate, given their natural rates of mortality and capacities
    for reproduction. This can result in extinction at the population level and even
    extinction of whole species. In conservation biology, the term is usually used in the
    context of human economic activity that involves the taking of biological resources, or
    organisms, in larger numbers than their populations can withstand. [3] The term is also
    used and defined somewhat differently in fisheries, hydrology and natural resource
    management.
    Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause
    adverse change.[1] Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or
    energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of
    pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring
    contaminants. Although environmental pollution can be caused by natural events, the
    word pollution generally implies that the contaminants have an anthropogenic source
    – that is, a source created by human activities. Pollution is often classed as point
    source or nonpoint source pollution. In 2015, pollution killed 9 million people
    worldwide.

    solutions

    Eradicate and control introduced weeds on your property. Keep vehicles on main roads
    to reduce the spread of weeds and disturbance to wildlife.

    Monitor and assess your pets’ impact on biodiversity. Some domestic animals,
    especially cats, are predators of wild animals and can devastate local population of
    native species. Cats have been estimated to kill tens of millions of birds each year in
    North America.

    Leave native plants undisturbed, and landscape using native trees and vegetation.
    Native plants are well adapted to local conditions and provide a low maintenance,
    drought resistant garden and can prevent local flooding. Attract “good” insects by
    planting pollen and nectar plants.

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