Why is animal conservation important?
Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create biodiversityWhat is the definition of biodiversity? When we ask, what is the definition of biodiversity? It depends on what we want to do with it. The term is widely and commonly misused, leading to significant misinterpretation of the importance of how animals function on Earth and why they matter a great deal, to human survival. Here I will try to More, which is the mechanism that creates a habitable planet for humans.
Without animals, the energyEnergy and nutrients are the same thing. Plants capture energy from the Sun and store it in chemicals, via the process of photosynthesis. The excess greenery and waste that plants create, contain chemicals that animals can eat, in order to build their own bodies and reproduce. When a chemical is used this way, we call it a nutrient. As we More from today’s plants (algae, trees, flowers etc) will eventually reach the atmosphere and ocean, much of it as carbon. The quantity of this plant-based waste is so massive, it contributed to the Devonian mass extinctionAnimal life hasn't existed for very long on planet Earth. In the last 500 million years, there have been five mass extinctions, defined as events that wiped out at least 75% of animal life. The Devonian mass extinction is considered to have been caused by the rise of plants on land, which polluted the oceans in the absence of animals. More and is dangerous to animal life.
The more excess waste that plants make, the more potential there is to create imbalance and the more irreversibly chaotic, unstable and unpredictable our weather and ocean climate becomes.
Land animals absorb the plant waste, locking it safely away, inside food chains. The systems that animals create, that stabilise everything we depend on for our own survival (because we are also an animal) are called ecosystemsHow ecosystems function An ecosystem is a community of lifeforms that interact in such an optimal way that how ecosystems function best, is when all components (including humans and other animals) can persist and live alongside each other for the longest time possible. Ecosystems are fuelled by the energy created by plants (primary producers) that convert the Sun's heat energy More. Ecosystems are not plant-driven, they are animal-driven. Biodiversity is the culmination of maximum energy flow through ecosystems, which reduces the risk of collapse.
Human beings are a product of ecosystems and as animals, evolved as one of the mechanisms, alongside all other animals. Our growing population and resource needs may mean we have become a destabilisation risk but it doesn’t alter the fact that we will need other animals around us, in the right proportions, if we’re to have any chance of rebuilding a habitable planet.
Conservation of wildlife is more than simply intrinsically important. It is the fundamental driver for human food security. We have no future without animals.
