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The
human activities have conquered the biodiversity to worldwide
scale, national and regional and continue . This is shown at
vegetable and animal populations loss, in extinction and in the
exhaustion of species and in the simplification of communities
and ecosystems. There are two forms to evaluate the
biodiversity's exhaustion: Investigation and the direct
observation and the elaboration of theories what it can happen
of on the base so that at present it is common knowledge.
An
analysis reveals than 600 species have extinguished XVII from
the beginning of the century. Close to the three fourth parts of
these acknowledged extinctions have happened at islands, as a
consequence of the human occupation; the causes have been the
over-exploitation, the destruction of habitats and the impact
caused by animals' introduction. The registered extinctions have
raised very much from the beginning of the century XIX mediated
of the XX.
Nearby of 6,000 animal species are considered threatened of
extinction because the number of individuals that they form are
decreasing, because his habitats in consequence of
over-exploitation are getting destroyed or because, simply, his
distribution area has been limited very much. Observations of
field have confirmed that there are a relation between the size
of an area and the number of species that it contains. A
generalization suggests what if a stain of habitat becomes
smaller to the tenth part of his original surface, it's probable
that you lose the half of species that you had. Numerous
individuals, organizations and countries have worked on last
decades to identify populations, species and habitats threatened
to extinction or degradation and to turn these tendencies. The
common goals are to try to obtain more efficaciously the natural
world to mitigate the influence of the human activities and, at
the same time, improving the options of development of the
underprivileged towns.
Many
conservationists hope that history demonstrate than the year
1992 has constituted an inflection point. In June of that year
was shown the
signature of The Agreement on the Biological Diversity in the
Conference of the United Nations about Environment and Develop,
celebrated in Rio de Janeiro. The Agreement became effective to
endings of 1993, and at the beginning of 1995 one hundred
countries had signed it over; this means that they agree with
his intentions and that they will make every effort to fulfill
his dispositions.
We
are in the 2007 and not yet we give importance to him, neither
do we want to become aware of what we are doing to the earth, to
our home, to our children, else the man is who the change make
who will do it? It seems like the large developed countries are
deviating their attention on not losing their cost-reducing or
warlike power, but... and agreements, promises, the calls of
alert? It seems like we hoped to lose our opportunity to change
our destination, for later saying... if we would have... Or than
beautiful it was, wasn't it?? And seeing showing an old photo to
our grandchildren when the land even was a safe place. |