The variety of life forms found in a particular region forms its biodiversity.
If biodiversity of an area is not preserved, it will result in:
(i) natural calamities such as floods, forest fires and hurricanes.
(ii) soil erosion and desertification because of deforestation.
(iii) large-scale habitat losses and extinction of vulnerable animal and plant species.
(iv) sudden climatic changes and instability in the functioning of the ecosystem.
The effect of biodiversity loss would be disturbance of ecosystem balance.
