AR-News: (Bangladesh) The advancing desertification

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Dr M A Bashar

All living things are governed by dominant principles, or rules. We all exist 
within a food chain: we both eat and are eaten. All nature is part of this 
food chain. If these living things interact as they should, in proper relation 
to the environment that surrounds them, they all co-exist in an overall 
balanced community. Moreover, if this balance is not disturbed, the organisms that 
eat and are eaten are subtly controlled so as to adjust their numbers according 
to the capacity of the environment. 
The destruction of animal habitats is today the major threat to survival of 
endangered species of plant and animal. When habitats are destroyed - animals 
must move and adapt to other habitats or die. Owing to increasing exploitation 
and destruction of nature in recent times, there has been a reduction not only 
in the total number of wild plants and animals in the world, but also in the 
number of species. The latter represents a loss in the genetic resources of 
the earth. Biodiversity protection includes all human efforts to preserve wild 
animals and plants from extinction. It involves protection, preservation and 
management of wild species (both plant and animal) and their environment. 




full story:

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/04/02/d404021801105.htm 
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