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ALERT!!! Your Children's future is at risk!

Without biological diversity our planet will have a hard time supporting the growing human race, and yet by acting quickly and wisely we can stem this loss of diversity. The first step we must take in continuing the development of biodiversity is to gain understanding of it. What is biodiversity? On its basic level, biodiversity is the grand assortment of the many and varied forms of life and their habitats. There is diversity at the minute level that is represented by each species gene-pool. A glance around in a public shopping center will quickly reveal many variations in the human gene-pool. We can also find diversity shown by the different species of living organisms and plants on earth. To date scientists have identified 1.75 million species: however, estimates for the total range from three to one hundred million with an average consensus of fourteen million. On the larger scale, diversity is found with the many ecosystems of the planet; such as: deserts, coral reefs, rain fores...

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