And as global biodiversity diminishes, is it a valid fallback strategy to bank organisms and genes in zoos, DNA banks or the like, or does this simply justify more habitat destruction?
The implications of the research are particularly relevant when considering coral reef ecosystems where, like fungi, species compete with one another for space through "overgrowth and displacement" strategies — and where in some cases biodiversity has diminished by environmental changes, including ocean acidification and human development.
Thus, effective and safe antioxidants acquired sustainably from the biodiversity can diminish the threat of free radicals and reactive oxygen species damage over lifetime [ 13].
The worldwide problem of an ever-expanding, biodiversity-diminishing and polluting carbon footprint left by industrial exploitation gives short-term benefits to a diminishing few.
In short, we should bring back extinct animals for the same reasons we protect endangered species: to preserve biodiversity, to restore diminished ecosystems, to advance the science of preventing extinctions and to undo harm that humans have caused in the past.
According to some estimates, the biodiversity rate indicator fell by 30% over the past 40 years, while the causes of this excessive decline in biodiversity have not diminished.
The remainder of the century will be a bottleneck of growing human impact on the environment and diminishing biodiversity.
Elsewhere in Brazil, as well as in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia ever more mines, roads, dams and farms are under construction, many of them in areas of extraordinary – but diminishing – biodiversity.
Each passing day swells the data on greenhouse gases and extreme weather, shrinking reservoirs and rising sea levels, and diminishing biodiversity.
Turning natural areas into cities or agricultural fields not only diminishes biodiversity, but can make warming worse by chopping down trees and plants that help cool the planet.
