Ecology and Environment
Which of the following is the most important cause of animals and plants being driven to extinction?
Can you think of a situation where we deliberately want to make a species extinct? How would you justify it?
Humans have deliberately eradicated polio virus as it was harmful to us. Likewise, use of pesticides, insecticides, and antibiotics against the harmful pest, insects and bacteria exemplify the human acts aimed at eradication of a species intentionally.
Which of the following is the most important cause of animals and plants being driven to extinction?
Which of the following is correctly matched?
What are the major causes of species losses in a geographical region?
According to IUCN, some of the recent extinctions include (i) Dodo (ii) Quagga (iii) Indian gazelle (iv) Thylacine (v) Steller's sea cow (vi) Bali- subspecies of tiger
The impact of loss of biodiversity include
Which of the following is/are factors that pose a great threat to biodiversity?