Biodiversity and Species at Risk from Climate Change

One of the biggest threats that biodiversity is facing today is change in climate and its impact on species survival. Conservation of biodiversity will help in building more resilient ecosystems and slow down this change giving ample time for species to adapt. Climate change has serious implications on the ability of species to adapt and survive in such anthropogenically altered environment. The only solution for this drastic problem is to maintain and conserve the resources and services provided by the ecosystem. Climate change is accelerated by human generated activities like increase in fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land use changes etc. A number of species are on verge of extinction simply because we are overexploiting the natural resources, causing habitat destruction, pollution, global warming etc. and bringing environment to such a point where it is beyond the carrying capacity of environment to restore itself. Biodiversity is facing a big threat from changing climatic patterns like disturbance in hydrological cycle, rising temperature, changes in wind circulation and pressure regions, natural disasters, melting of glaciers and rising sea level.