Earth´s Biodiversity and Species Protection

Mother Earth and all living things such as plants, fishs, birds and animals are created so man may have dominion over it to sustain life. The earth’s biodiversity is necessary and it serves useful purpose as part of the natural capital that helps to keep us humans alive and supports our economies. We have an ethical role as dominion care takers of Mother Earth and all livings things to be responsible, to protect and care for all life and not to try and contradict the value of one species in favor of the other. All species play an intricate part in the earth’s natural capital therefore it is important that we need to take precautionary action to protect species from extinction that results from human activities, to avoid causing the extinction of wild species, and to limit the harmful impacts of nonnative species.

The variety of earth’s species is estimated in the range from 8 million to 100 million and according to biologists almost 2 million species have been identified and up to half of the world’s plant and animal species live in tropical forests, another important part is the genetic diversity where the genes they contain in a population or in a species enables life on the earth to survive and adapt to environmental changes, another major element is the ecosystem diversity in which they live in such as deserts, grassland, forests, mountains, oceans, lakes, rivers, and wetlands where each of these “ecosystems is a storehouse of genetics and species diversity”, and another important component of earth’s biodiversity is functional diversity where “the variety of processes such as energy flow and nutrients cycling that occurs within ecosystem as species interact with one another in food chains and webs” sustain all life in the...

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...mitting nitric oxide into the atmosphere which increased concentrations of harmful ground-level ozone gas. Although kudzu can spread and kill trees, it could be used in place of trees as a source of fiber for making paper according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Miller & Spoolman, 2013, p. 158) As stewards of the world’s biodiversity, the best way to control nonnative species is to limit the harmful impact by preventing them from being introduced and becoming established.

It is our ethical role to accept all species as having the inherent right to survive whether we think it serves any useful purpose to us as dominion care takers over earth’s biodiversity, we are obligated to help sustain biodiversity by identifying and protecting threatened habitats and ecosystem services, and sharing with other species much of the land we dominate.