The value of biodiversity

a) Utility:

• Human have been used plants and animals for thousands of years.
• The most conventional use of biodiversity is as food medicines and industrial products and has potentiality of many more in future.
• The value of biodiversity is particularly apparent in agriculture.

b) Function:

• diverse species are the key working parts of natural ecosystem and has indirectly provided an array of services to human beings.
• Such essential services to human beings include water catchment that regulate and stabilize water runoff, recycling and important elements such as carbon oxygen nitrogen maintenance of gaseous composition of the atmosphere, global climate, soil fertility by retaining water and maintaining texture.

c) Beauty:

• This quality present in things or person giving aesthetic pleasures or deep satisfaction to the sense of the mind.
• Similarly, the beauty of species may be found in sound color form smell behavior adaptation ability to survive and its interaction.