Biodiverse ecosystems are essential to regulate the Earth's climate. Forests, for example, act as carbon sinks by absorbing and storing large amounts of CO2. When biodiversity is lost due to deforestation or other factors, the capacity of these ecosystems to sequester carbon decreases, leading to higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.

As we all studied in class, species depend on each other, and this interdependence is important mostly because it helps keep everything in balance. When those relationships get disrupted, it leads to a loss of ecological resistance, making ecosystems more vulnerable to stress and making it harder for them to recover and maintain their essential functions.

In this project, you'll find and learn a few facts on biodiversity loss through illustrations, text, and graphs. Some endangered animal and plant species and how much countries protect a share of their land for biodiversity purposes. By this, I mean scientific reserves with limited public access, national parks, natural monuments, nature reserves or wildlife sanctuaries, protected landscapes, and areas managed mainly for sustainable use.