Biodiversity

• Variability within and between the species like microorganisms, plants and animals and the ecosystem in which they inhibit is called biodiversity.
• It encompasses the variety, total number and variability of life forms.
• It includes diversity

a) Within species

b) Between Species

c) And of ecosystem

Aim of Biodiversity

• to raise an appreciation and deeper understanding of species, ecosystems and the interconnectedness of the living world and thereby avoid the mismanagement, misuse and destruction of biodiversity.
• to provide an international forum on all matters concerning the integrity and wellness of ecosystems

Scope of Biodiversity

a) Unifying driving force:

• Biodiversity is a unifying driving force of several disciplines.

b) Backbone of applied sciences:

• Biodiversity deals with all biological resources (agriculture, aquaculture, animal husbandry, forestry etc.)

c) Developing better land use pattern:

• The change in the existing land use must properly plan in order to make it environmentally friendly by understanding biodiversity.

d) Utilization of bio resources:

• It offers new sources of food, medicine and other human requirements.

e) Societal and cultural context:

• Biodiversity is purposeful scientific too to bridge social and cultural world.

f) Human development:

• Biodiversity is the resources on which all human existence depends thus treated as pillar of human development.

g) Basis of General Law:

• Biodiversity has become the basis of a great law of dynamic stabilization of complex systems.