Biodiversity: An Entrepreneurship Mission for the World to Conserve for Living Creatures in Future Prospects

Subhalakshmi Das , Babita Kumari*

DOI : DOI: 10.46890/SL.2020.v01i01.002

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The term Biodiversity wasnamed by Walter Rosen, 1985. Approximately 50 million species of plants, animals & microbes are existing in the world. Among this only 2 million are identified so far. Biodiversity also includes: Variability of genus, Variability of varieties, Variability of species, Variability of populations in different ecosystems, Variability in relative abundance of species. Knowledge of biodiversity is essential for sustainable utilization of resources. Biological resources provide us: Nourishment, Clothing, House, Fuel, Medicine and Revenue. Biodiversity play a critical role in sustaining human populations across the globe. We depend on it for sustained food growth, for clean air and water and for medicine and shelter. It is no surprise then that ecosystem degradation threatens our most basic necessity – a healthy environment to live and thrive in. This is especially true of biodiversity hotspots, which house some of the largest diversity of species in the world and provide important life-support services to the people who live in and around them.