All species, no matter how small it is has an important role to balance the ecosystem

In the Philippines, its coral reefs, holds 300,000km2 diverse species.

Our rainforest are home to 102 species of amphibians, 254 species of reptiles, 179 mammals, 20,940 species of insects, 548 species of birds, 15,000 kinds of plants.

They are efficient use to make medicines, clothes and foods.

BIODIVERSITY

Biodiversity, short for biological diversity, is the term used to describe the variety of life found on Earth and all of the natural processes.

1. Genetic diversity

2. 2. Species diversity

3. 3. Ecosystem diversity

TRADITIONAL THREE LEVEL OF BIODIVERSITY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED:

WHY BIODIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT?ESSENTIAL OF LIFEBenefits of biodiversity

Can be a skin ointment, antibiotics, anti-cancer drugs.

The wild species are an important reservoir of genes that aid farmers in empowering food crops and livestock.

Provides foods, shelter and clothes.

Control pests, recycle water, reduce flooding and control erosion.

CAUSES OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS Alteration and destruction of ecosystem

Farming practices

Hunting, killing and exploitation of animals

Introduction of new species

Water pollution and atmosphere

Failure to account for the value of biodiversity

WHERE IT CAME FROM? EVOLUTION

FLOW OF ENERGY

Cooperation

EFFECTS AND IMPACTS If our Earths biodiversity gets too damaged we could lose our

fresh water causing larger water restriction, our reefs and our Alpine Areas. There would be more bushfires and effects our lives, home and property.

It damage spread Tropical diseases and parasites. There will be a large spread of weed, pest and bugs. It will damage or destroy our coastal areas and beaches. There will be a loss of rainforest and jungles.

Loss of biodiversity appears to impacts ecosystem as much as climate change, pollution change and other major environmental forms of environmental stress.

“Loss of biological due to species extinctions is going to have major impacts on our planet, and we better prepare ourselves to deal with them,” by Bradley Cardinate

MITIGATIONMethods of preventing extinction

1. The zoo-botanical garden approach

2. The species approach

3. Ecosystem approach

LAWS PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY IN THE PHILIPPINES

Acts/Republic Acts and Implementing Rules and Regulations

Act No. 2590 (1916) An Act For The Protection Of Game And Fish.

RA 7308 An Act to Promote and Develop the Seed Industry in the Philippines and Create a National Seed Industry Council and for Other Purposes

RA 7586 National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 DAO 25, s 1992, NIPAS Implementing Rules and Regulations

RA 7611 Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) for Palawan Acts

RA 7900 High-Value Crops Development Act of 1995

RA 7942 Philippine Mining Code

RA 8371 Recognizing the Rights Of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples

Presidential Decrees

PD 1433 Plant Quarantine Decree of 1978

PD 1586 Environmental Impact Statement System Law

Executive Orders and Implementing Rules and Regulations

EO 192 Reorganization of the DENR

EO 247 Guidelines on Bio-prospecting DAO 20,s 1996 Implementing Rules And Regulations On

The Prospecting Of Biological And Genetic Resources

Proclamation Proc No. 926 Establishing Subic

Watershed Forest Reserve

DENR Administrative Orders

DAO 24, s 1991, Shift in Logging from the Old Growth (Virgin) Forests to the Second Growth (Residual) Forests

DAO 2, s 1993, Rules And Regulations For The Identification, Delineation And Recognition Of Ancestral And Domain Claims

CONCLUSION Biodiversity has a big function to

the balance of ecosystem as well as to the needs of human, but because of the unlimited wants off human, the change of climate, the innovation of technology, the pollution, and the industrial site affects the number of it. They become extinct as the modern time passed by. The local government made a law to protect it, but the most effective protection is comes from human.

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Save our Forest by buying “ good” wood

Buy Sustainable Seafood

Protecting Areas

Preventing Species Introductions

Informing/Educating