Soil is vital to food production. We need high-quality soil to grow the crops that we need. Soil is also important to plants that grow in the wild. Many other types of conservation efforts, such as plant conservation and animal conservation, depend on soil conservation.

Poor farming methods, such as repeatedly planting the same type of crop in the same place, deplete nutrients in the soil. Soil erosion by water and wind increases when farmers plough up and down hills.

One soil conservation method is called contour strip cropping. Several crops, such as corn, wheat, and clover, are planted in alternating strips across a slope or across the path of the prevailing wind. Different crops, with different root systems and leaves, help to prevent soil erosion. Selective harvesting methods means we harvest mature commertial trees of a specific diameter on a rotational cycle to maintain the forest Eco- balance. Harvested areas are then closed for a prescribed period of time before the next harvest cycle in the same area. This provides younger trees a chance to grow full commertial potential while removing aged tress that would otherwise die naturally allowing forest to regenerate naturally.

Biodiversity is the variety of living things that populate the Earth. The products and benefits we get from nature rely on biodiversity. We need a rich mixture of living things to provide foods, building materials, and medicines, as well as to maintain a clean and healthy landscape.

When a species becomes extinct, it is lost to the world forever. Scientists estimate that the current rate of extinction is 1,000 times the natural rate. Through hunting, pollution, habitat destruction, people are speeding up the loss of biodiversity at an alarming rate. It’s hard to know how many species are going extinct because the total number of species is unknown. Scientists discover thousands of new species every year. For example, after looking at just 19 trees in Panama, scientists found 1,200 different species of beetles 80 percent of them unknown to science at the time. Based on various estimates of the number of species on Earth, we could be losing anywhere from 200 to 100,000 species each year.

We need to protect biodiversity to ensure plentiful and varied food sources.

Biodiversity is more important than food. For instance, we use between 50,000 to 70,000 plant species for medicines worldwide.

A lawn in a colony is usually a pleasant sight but do you know that a lot of species of plants are completely destroyed to grow the type of grass on the lawn? Moreover the grass usually grown has been brought from other countries.