Reduction of Biodiversity: Facts about Habitat Destruction

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What is Habitat Destruction?

  • The process in which natural habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species originally present 
  • Reduction of biodiversity
  • Habitat destruction alone is the important cause of species extinction over hunting animals.

Habitat Destruction
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Where does it occur?
Although deforestation is the major habitat destroyed it is not the only one. Wet lands, deserts, coastal regions are all losing their habitats.