WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.
Conservation of biodiversity and its use in sustainable development have been impeded by many
obstacles. The need to mainstream the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources across all
sectors of the national economy, the society and the policy-making framework is a complex challenge at
the heart of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Major challenges to implementing the
conservation of biodiversity and its use in sustainable development are many. But there are some major
thing that we will discuss about: Exotic species; Government policies; Habitat degradation and Population
growth and increasing demand for biological resources. On the overall, each challenge has a different
problem and special issue that hard to face or solve but the biggest challenge to biodiversity conservation
is absolutely coming from human and it is “Population growth and increasing demand for biological
resources”
As we use biodiversity to meet our demand under the above points, population increase in the
world stands as a major problem because it increases consumption creating pressure for using bioresources more and more. The world is losing its tropical forests at the alarming rate of almost 42 million
acres per year. The largest areas of forest loss occurred in Latin America, followed by Africa. However,
when deforestation is measured as a percentage of the remaining forest, the most losses happen to have
occurred in Asia. At the current rate tropical forest will be gone within 115 years.
Population in the world is currently (2018-2019) growing at a rate of around 1.07% per. The current
average population increase is estimated at 82 million people per year. The demand for food to feed the
world's increasing populations will continue to put pressure on forest lands. Nearly 30 tree species in hill
forest, 20 species in plain land forest and 30 species in the littoral forests used to be commercially
exploited. In the study the impact of population growth and increase, demographic statement of the local
people involved, family affairs and tradition, and their education systems were taken under consideration.
The local people are culturally habituated to go inside the forest every morning and have some wood or
undergrowth plants cut for selling in the market nearby.
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