The Imperiled State of Polar Bears and Ecosystems

The document discusses the alarming state of polar bears and ecosystems, highlighting the dangers they face due to human activities such as environmental change, pollution, overfishing, and plastics in oceans. It emphasizes the importance of preserving biodiversity and taking immediate action to protect marine species, ocean plants, animal species, and ecosystems globally and locally.

Protection of biodiversity (all forms, including animals and plants)
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Protection of biodiversity (all forms, including animals and plants). For example, should
we do more to protect ocean or forest biodiversity? Certain species, like polar bears? Or
certain insects, like bees?
Biodiversity ought to be the greatest complex aspect of earth and it is the most
essential as without it the future existence of humanity is impossible (Tilman et al, 2017). For
this reason, I do support we should do more to protect ocean or forest biodiversity. According
to Tilman et al (2017), biodiversity comprises entirely different living organisms as well as
ecosystems, animals, plants, their territories along with genes, which is essential to life on our
planet earth. Biodiversity is of great importance to us because we require it for its
irreplaceable ecosystem services, offering food, fertile soil, oxygen, medicines, clean water,
shelter, safeguard from floods and storms, a steady climate as well as reformation. This paper
aims to explain and present reasons why we should do more to protect particularly the ocean
and forest biodiversity.
Following Brockerhoff et al (2017), human activities such as deforestation have a
direct cause of damage to biodiversity and extinction. It is estimated that a wide range of
forest are destroyed annually because of logging, charcoal burning and various human
activities, putting an end to the ecosystems on which various species rely on. For instance,
bees depend on flowers from different plants to collect nectar for honey making, hence
cutting down and clearing of forests affect their honey-making process forcing them to
migrate to other places or extinct. Tropical rainforests in particular, like the Amazon forest,
keep an increased percentage of the flora and fauna recognized species, but the regions
themselves are in deterioration because of man activities.
Therefore, appropriate policies and strategies must be implemented to protect forest
biodiversity. Corporations and companies can embrace best practices and decline to utilize
timber and paper providers that support cutting down trees (Brockerhoff et al, 2017).

Similarly, keen purchasers can decline to go to firms that do and put more tension on retailers
that utilize unsustainable manufacturing strategies. Also, people can engage in land
protection through private corporations and charities. As a final point, however, governments
must implement more effective scientific forest protection regulations.
Additionally, Sala and colleagues (2021) explain that more is required to safeguard
the ocean biodiversity because overfishing, overhunting, as well as over-harvesting
prominently contribute to the killing of various species long ago, harm of biodiversity. What
is more, other kinds of hunting and poaching for money raise the threat of extinction; the
destruction of a top predator or, a predator at the top of a food chain might lead to disastrous
effects for ecosystems. For this reason, conservation in addition to continuous awareness
regarding overexploitation, particularly overfishing and poaching is essential. Governments
should unreservedly impose guidelines against such activities, and people can be more
mindful of what they buy and eat. Further resolutions, for example eliminating grants given
to big fisheries, might also be an advantage.
Moreover, protection of biodiversity must be a priority as from the burning of fossil
fuels that emit hazardous chemicals into the environment as well as from time to time,
exhausting ozone levels to dumping various kinds of plastics items into the sea consistently,
contamination totally upsets the biological systems of the earth. Even though it may not
really cause death, pollutants do possess the potential to interrupt species' behaviours. For
instance, acid rain that is normally brought about by the burning of fossil fuels might acidify
smaller waterways and soil, contrarily influencing the species that stays inside it by altering
reproducing and feeding behaviours.
Presently, it is unfortunately biodiversity is vanishing at multiple times the typical rate
because of man advancement. Distinct species are being wiped out by the loss of habitat and
dilapidation, invasive species, pollution spread and illness, change of climate as well as the

overexploitation of resources. What's more, in light of the fact that the human populace is
continuing to increase every day, and it is predicted to increase more by 2050, the
biodiversity disaster shall just continue to deteriorate because more individuals will heavily
depend on resources thus a need to protect more currently.
Also, Opoku (2019) pinpoint that biodiversity perform a major part in preserving the
aesthetic value of the surroundings, uprightness of the natural environment, as well as
supports the general well-being of the entire animal and plant life, thus the necessity for
conserving the biodiversity for the continued existence of the entire living things along with
their niches or natural habitat. Undertakings like human disturbance, habitat fragmentation,
and loss of habitat must be effectively stopped to advance biodiversity preservation measures.
Biodiversity involves more than just the assortment of animals and plants on planet earth; it is
about local ecosystems as well as offering favourable conditions for living things to flourish.
Even though protecting the rainforests looks like an overwhelming assignment there is a great
deal one can perform to preserve and protect biodiversity. For instance, bees are essential to
conserving biodiversity but they are progressively under attack from varroa mites. One may
assist to save them through planting nectar-producing wildflowers in his/her backyard or
making beehives for them to enter and live there.
Presently, people are discharging carbon dioxide quicker than the plants or oceans can
absorb it. This shall prompt rising temperatures, dissolving ice caps as well as a rising ocean
level. When the temperatures increase, there is a loss of more water in form of evaporation,
more clouds are created and greater winds blow. These issues upsurge the deadly hurricanes
and rough storms occurring everywhere on earth. Nevertheless, if we can protect our forest
and plant more trees, it will help to recycle more carbon dioxide into oxygen thus not as
much acidic as the oceans turn out to be.

There is also a need to protect species like polar bears because of fast variations in
climate, the territory that polar bears refer to as home is rapidly vanishing (Scheffers & Pecl,
2019). Polar bears are basically significant in adjusting the Arctic food chain, and a large part
of the ecosystem shall be tossed out of equilibrium without these remarkable creatures. On
the off chance that people cannot make any effort immediately to save the polar bears, their
general population will decay progressively. Presently, climate change ought to be the
leading threat confronting the Arctic along with its natural world. For instance, polar bears
rely on seasonal ocean ice to search for seals. If the world continues to have high temperature
and melt the ice, it is approximated that two-thirds of polar bears might be extinct by the year
2050. Therefore, more should be done as soon as possible to save the polar bears as they are
in danger of getting imperilled or wiped out.
Finally, all over the world, species rely upon each other as well as live together. Each
living thing, as well as a human being, is associated with these multifarious networks of
codependent relationships that are known as ecosystems. On the other hand, biodiversity is
the main factor of a sound ecosystem. An extensive assortment of species shall adapt well to
dangers than a small number of them in big populaces. Regardless of whether certain species
are affected by environmental change, pollution or man activities, the ecosystem, in general,
may adjust and continue. However, the extinction of certain insects, animals or plants can
have unexpected effects, in some cases increasing to the eradication of whole ecosystems.
According to Scheffers and Pecl (2019), protecting biodiversity is the best means for
securing as well as planning for the future. It is a subject that plays a crucial role in
determining what way people shall live in the coming years. This is because habitats along
with ecosystems such as animals and plants are negatively affected by evil activities. The
creation of life-saving drug, clean water as well as healthy food varieties are linked to
biodiversity. With the ever-increasing population of the world, so does the pressure put on

nature. It is upon us to discover approaches to consume not as much, manufacture goods that
are green well as that diminish the utilization of non-renewable energy sources.
In conclusion, shockingly, unexpected human activities are placing our forests and
oceans in danger. Overfishing is decreasing the number of some fish in waters, threatening
the source of nourishing food as well as altering the marine food web. Roughly 80% of the
contamination in the waters comes from land, and waterfront zones are particularly helpless
against contaminants (Opoku, 2019). Also, plastics are mainly hazardous with massive
floating waste accumulating in the waters. Environmental change and its associated effects,
like ocean acidification, are influencing the continued existence of other marine species.
Furthermore, Seaside development is degrading and finishing significant waterfront marine
ecosystems like seagrass meadows, coral reef and mangroves.
Lastly, we want uncontaminated and healthy oceans to upkeep our wellbeing and
continued existence, regardless of whether we do not stay somewhere close to them. All of us
can create a difference and the moment is now to put an effort. Consider which dangers to the
oceans or forests concern you mostly or consider what marine species, ocean plants, animal
species, or ecosystems needs to be protected, conserved and reinstated both globally and
locally.

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