Question : List out the various causes for biodiversity losses.

1.	Question : List out the various causes for biodiversity losses.
Answer» Solution :The major causes for biodiversity decline are: • Habitat loss, fragmentation and destruction (affects about 73% of all species). • Pollution and pollutants (smog, pesticides, herbicides, oil slicks and GHGs). • Climate change. • Introduction of alien/exotic species. • Over exploitation of resources (poaching, indiscriminate cutting of trees, over fishing, hunting and mining). • Intensive agriculture and aquacultural practices. • Hybridization between native and non-native species and loss of native species uthaunke and volcanoes). Industrialization, Urbanization, infrastructure development, Transport - Road and Shipping activity, communication towers, dam construction, unregulated TOURISM and monoculture are COMMON area of SPECIFIC THREATS. • Co-extinction

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