Biodiversity and Healthy Society

Group 10
 Reporters/ Creators
Wendelyn Alipoon
Samantha Shien Po
Josephine Camba
Jayvee mar Deus
BIODIVERSITY
AND HEALTHY
SOCIETY
REPORTER:
WENDELYN ALIPOON
 INTRODUCTION:
Biodiversity is essential for the
processes that support all life on
Earth, including humans. Without a
wide range of animals, plants and
microorganisms, we cannot have the
healthy ecosystems that we rely on to
provide us with the air we breathe
and the food we eat. And people also
value nature of itself.
OVERVIEW
 Impact of biodiversity on human life
 human population growth
 Pollution and destruction in our
environment
 Destruction of habitat
 Exploitation of animals and plants
 Signs of environmental contamination
consumption of energy
BIODIVERSITY
 Biodiversity is all the different kinds of
life you’ll find in one area—the variety of
animals, plants, fungi, and even
microorganisms like bacteria that make
up our natural world. Each of these
species and organisms work together in
ecosystems, like an intricate web, to
maintain balance and support life.
IMPACT OF BIODIVERSITY ON HUMAN LIFE
 1.) Biodiversity ensures health and

food security
1.) Biodiversity ensures health and food
security
-Biodiversity underpins global
nutrition and food security. Millions of
species work together to provide us
with a large array of fruits, vegetables
and animal products essential to a
healthy, balanced diet – but they are
increasingly under threat.
2.) Biodiversity helps fight diseases
2.) Biodiversity helps fight diseases
-Higher rates of biodiversity have
been linked to an increase in human
health. First, plants are essential for
medicines. For example, 25% of drugs
used in modern medicine are derived
from rainforest plants while 70% of
cancer drugs are natural or synthetic
products inspired by nature.
3. Biodiversity benefits
business
3. Biodiversity benefits business
-According to the World
Economic Forum’s recent Nature
Risk Rising Report, more than half
of the world’s GDP ($44 trillion) is
highly or moderately dependent on
nature. Many businesses are,
therefore, at risk due to increasing
nature loss.
4.) Biodiversity provides
livelihoods
4.) Biodiversity provides livelihoods
-Humans derive approximately
$125 trillion of value from natural
ecosystems each year. Globally,
three out of four jobs are
dependent on water while the
agricultural sector employs over
60% of the world’s working poor.
5. Biodiversity protects us
5. Biodiversity protects us
-Biodiversity makes the earth
habitable. Biodiverse ecosystems
provide nature-based solutions that
buffer us from natural disasters such
as floods and storms, filter our water
and regenerate our soils.
 - the human species is just
one of Earth’s 1.9 million
living life forms
 Human are also unlike other

species because of their
niche as thinking , planning
and technological beings.
Human technologies
 Have had significant impact
on the natural world by
producing materials that
pollute the air, water and soil
Some Examples of human
technologies
 1.) Vehicles
 2.) Factories
 3.) Sprays ( perfumes,
pesticides, insecticide,
herbicide)
 4.) Fertilizer
HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH
- has risen at a very rapid rate over the
past centuries
✓ the development of medical technology
has reduced the incidence of diseases in
many parts of the world
✓ modern agriculture had reduces the
incidence of disease in many Parts of the
world.
✓ modern agriculture had reduced the
likelihood of starvation in developed
nations.
 The rapid increase in human
population and technology that
supports that growth has put
extreme pressure on the natural
world threatening the survival
of natural species and habitats.
Poverty and hunger
these areas had led to the
resurgence of the diseases that
have been all but eradicated in
the world’s developed nations.
 Conditions have forced some
people abandon their homes in
search of food and to exposed
to the elements, further
reducing their ability to survive.
Advantage of human
population growth
 1. More people leads to

greater human capital.
 2. Higher economic
growth.
 3. Economies of scale.
Disadvantages of human
population
 1. Cost to the environment.
 2. Congestion
 3. Generating unsustainable
waste
Pollution and destruction in
our environment
 Technological and industrial
processes
- led to the production of the
chemicals and by-product that are
harmful ( toxic) to living things.
Examples of pollutants include:
1.) Acidic ions
2.) Pesticides
Dioxin
 This industrial by-product brings
dangers to many species ,
including humans the combining
of Acidic ions with atmospheric
water has resulted in acid
precipitation (acid rain) which
has acidicide lakes and
disrupted natural ecosystem.
SIGNS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINATION
Toxic chemicals by-
products:
 Heavy metals
 Pesticides
 Hormones
 Pharmaceuticals
The culprit suspected by some
scientist are hormone-disrupting
chemicals in agricultural run off.
 In includes the following
examples:
 Reproductive cycle disruption in
birds as a result of high
concentration of DDT and other
pesticides.
Deaths and population declines of
birds and fish linked to contamination
from oil spills
Death and disorientation of marine
mammals ( tortoise and whales)
possibly due to coastal pollutant
runoff.
 Contaminated waters
 Infancy and Early childhood
- these are the periods of
vulnerability to environmental
pollution, because they spend more
energy, requires more food, water, and
oxygen per unit of mass than adults.
Childhood cancer
- become the second leading cause
of childhood deaths .
DESTRUCTION
OF HABITAT
REPORTER:
SAMANTHA SHEIN
PO
 Habitat destruction is the process
by which a natural habitat becomes
incapable of supporting it’s native
species. The organisms that
previously inhabited the site are
displaced or dead, thereby reducing
biodiversity and species
abundance. Habitat destruction is
the leading cause of biodiversity
loss.
 Habitat Destruction is also
defined as the elimination or
alteration of the conditions
necessary for animals and plants
to survive, not only impacts
individual species but the health
of the global ecosystem. Habitat
loss is primary, though not always
human caused.
 The main causes of habitat
destruction are pollution,
invasive species, agricultural
development, diminished
resources, such as water and
food, urban sprawl, logging,
mining, destructive fishing
practices and the disruption of
ecosystem processes, such as
altering the intensity and
frequency of fires in an
ecosystem.
 These are the examples
of Destruction of
Habitat
HUMAN ACTIVITIES THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE
DESTRUCTION OF
HABITAT
 Over cropping is the
numerous method to
prevent cover cropping the
most common one is crop
rotation because various
crops require different
nutrients. To rest
 and replenish nutrients,
land may also be left fallow
for a season.
Overgrazing represents
an environmental hazard
whereby wildlife or
livestock excessively
feeds on pasture.
Otherwise stated,
overgrazing takes place
when vegetation or
pasture is repeatedly
removed from the land,
and it is not given enough
time to continue growing.
Human agriculture or
farming is the practice of
cultivating plants and
livestock. Agriculture was
the key development in the
rise of sedentary human
civilization, whereby farming
of domesticated species
created food surpluses that
enabled people to live in
cities.
REPORTER:
JOSEPHINE CAMBA
Exploitation of animals
The raising and killing of animals for
the
Product of certain types of food is
the most common one, though
animals are also killed to produce
clothing, for entertainment, or to be
used as labor or tools, including their
Exploitation of plants
 Plant exploitation, simplest
level is the use of plant
different chemicals for the
benefits of insect. It is
illustrated by the use of
plant toxins for defense
against predators.
CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY
Worldwide, industrialization has
brought an increased demand for use
of energy resources. It brought both
the positive and the negative effects
on humans and ecosystem. The world
industrialized nations have used
tremendous quantity of energy to fuel
their business.
REPORTER: JAYVEE MAR

DEUS
The source of energy has changed,
with traditional water, wood, coal,
and oil gradually being replace with
natural gas, wind, wave/tidal,
nuclear, solar, geothermal and fuel
cell technologies. The development
of these energy sources often uses
valuable agriculture land for the
construction, storage and transport
they produce.
 Fossil fuels are commonly
used as an energy source in
industrial processes for the
past 200 years, include
naturally occurring materials
such as oil, col and natural
gas.
 The chemical by-products of
fossil fuel combustion are
released into the atmosphere
and contribute to the worldwide
air pollution as well as a
phenomenon known as acid
precipitation or acid rain.
 Acid precipitation results
from combining of sulfur and
nitrogen oxide ions with
atmospheric water to produce
sulfuric and nitric acids.
When rain snow and sleet
containing these acids fall on
aquatic ecosystems they can
significantly alter the
acids/base chemistry.
 Any alteration often leads to
elimination of acid/base
sensitive species of fish and
amphibians in the ecosystem.
The burning of fossil fuels has
also been linked to the
phenomenon knows as global
warming.
Summary
Biodiversity is essential for the processes

that support all life on Earth, including
humans. Without a wide range of animals,
plants and microorganisms, we cannot
have the healthy ecosystems that we rely
on to provide us with the air we breathe
and the food we eat. And people also value
nature of itself.
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