What is meant by biodiversity? List two advantages of conserving forest and wildlife.

Biodiversity is the diversity of biological organisms (plants and animals) living in a particular regionor an ecosystem or anywhere around the world.


Two advantages of conserving forest and wildlife are:


i) When biological diversity is maintained, or forest and wildlife is conserved it in turn leads to conservation of ecological diversity.


ii) Forests are a source of a lot of essential items that we use in our daily lives like medicines, wood and controls soil erosion etc. whereas wildlife plays a role in balancing the ecosystem and various food web chains.


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