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Importance of Bio Diversity

Yaya Tso, a lake in Ladakh known as the Bird’s Paradise, is significant for its biodiversity, particularly as a breeding site for black-necked cranes and was designated as the first Biodiversity Heritage Site of Ladakh. Biodiversity is crucial for food security and sustainable development, providing essential ecosystem services that enhance resilience against environmental changes and support agricultural livelihoods. The conservation of biodiversity is vital for maintaining healthy ecosystems, which are necessary for human survival and the production of food.

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Importance of Bio Diversity

Yaya Tso, a lake in Ladakh known as the Bird’s Paradise, is significant for its biodiversity, particularly as a breeding site for black-necked cranes and was designated as the first Biodiversity Heritage Site of Ladakh. Biodiversity is crucial for food security and sustainable development, providing essential ecosystem services that enhance resilience against environmental changes and support agricultural livelihoods. The conservation of biodiversity is vital for maintaining healthy ecosystems, which are necessary for human survival and the production of food.

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Yaya Tso is a lake in Ladakh and is known as the Bird’s Paradise.

The lake is at an
altitude of 4,820 kilometres. The lake is a popular breeding site for black-necked
cranes. The lake was recently announced as the “Biodiversity Heritage Site”. It is the
first biodiversity heritage site of Ladakh.

Biodiversity for food and agriculture is indispensable to food security and sustainable
development. It supplies many vital ecosystem services, such as creating and
maintaining healthy soils, pollinating plants, controlling pests and providing habitat
for wildlife, including for fish and other species that are vital to food production and
agricultural livelihoods.

Biodiversity makes production systems and livelihoods more resilient to shocks and
stresses, including those caused by climate change. It is a key resource in efforts to
increase food production while limiting negative impacts on the environment. It
makes a variety of contributions to the livelihoods of many people, often reducing the
need for food and agricultural producers to rely on costly or environmentally harmful
external inputs.

Biodiversity at genetic, species and ecosystem levels helps address the challenges
posed by diverse and changing environmental conditions and socio-economic
circumstances. Diversifying production systems, for example by using multiple
species, breeds or varieties, integrating the use of crop, livestock, forest and aquatic
biodiversity, or promoting habitat diversity in the local landscape or seascape, helps
to promote resilience, improve livelihoods and support food security and nutrition.

IMPORTANCE OF BIO DIVERSITY:


Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on Earth, including
humans. Without a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms, we cannot
have the healthy ecosystems that we rely on to provide us with the air we breathe
and the food we eat. And people also value nature of itself.

Some aspects of biodiversity are instinctively widely valued by people but the more
we study biodiversity the more we see that all of it is important – even bugs and
bacteria that we can’t see or may not like the look of. There are lots of ways that
humans depend upon biodiversity and it is vital for us to conserve it. Pollinators such
as birds, bees and other insects are estimated to be responsible for a third of the
world’s crop production. Without pollinators we would not have apples, cherries,
blueberries, almonds and many other foods we eat. Agriculture is also reliant upon
invertebrates – they help to maintain the health of the soil crops grow in. Soil is
teeming with microbes that are vital for liberating nutrients that plants need to grow,
which are then also passed to us when we eat them. Life from the oceans provides
the main source of animal protein for many people.
Trees, bushes and wetlands and wild grasslands naturally slow down water and help
soil to absorb rainfall. When they are removed it can increase flooding. Trees and
other plants clean the air we breathe and help us tackle the global challenge of
climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide. Coral reefs and mangrove forests act
as natural defences protecting coastlines from waves and storms.

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