The value of biodiversity

a) Utility:

• Humans have been using plants and animals for thousands of years.
• The most conventional use of biodiversity is in food medicines and industrial products and has the potential for many more in the future.
• The value of biodiversity is particularly apparent in agriculture.

b) Function:

• Diverse species are the key working parts of the natural ecosystem and have indirectly provided an array of services to human beings.
• Such essential services to human beings include water catchment that regulates and stabilizes water runoff, recycling, ng and important elements such as carbon oxygen nitrogen maintenance of gaseous composition of the atmosphere, global climate, soil fertility by retaining water, and maintaining texture.

c) Beauty:

• This quality is present in things or persons giving aesthetic pleasures or deep satisfaction to the sense of the mind.
• Similarly, the beauty of species may be found in sound color form smell behavior adaptation ability to survive, and interaction.