How would habitat fragmentation decrease biodiversity? support with evidence.

What ideas do you have to help eliminate habitat fragmentation?

What additional policies may be needed to increase the protection of endagered species?

PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF FRAGMENTATION

Restoration: Converting once developed land to a natural state. Mitigation: Developers create or preserve lands of similar quality and size to that which they impact. Zoning: Adding wildlife and habitat conservation considerations to lo- cal development plans.

Explanation:

For example the amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse place on the planet. With deforestation we are putting hundreds of species to extenction and causeing the biodiversity to drop. This causes the whole planet to suffer in many ways such as less oxegen more co2. Some ways we could help eliminate this is to restrict the number of trees to be able to be cut down. This would need to be done by the brazilian government to be able to enforce it.

SOme polices to protect endaered speies would be to threaten prison time with pouching.

weathering - colorado river carves land in arizona to form the grand canyon. cracks form in a sandstone wall surrounding a house. a marble statue near the science museum is changing color due to rainfall

erosion - after a rainstorm, soil and rock piees litter the roadways. the sand dunes in the sahara desert are changing shape.

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