Pollution, Species, Bio-Diversity

How Pollution Affects Endangered Species and Bio-Diversity

Pollution doesn’t only affect human health directly.  It also has a tremendous impact
on the natural environment and the organisms that inhabit it.  This is especially true
for endangered and threatened species that rely heavily upon specialized environments
or lie high upon the food chain. Whether as a consequence of habitat destruction, direct
poisoning that kills outright or the invasion of invasive species, pollution is directly or
indirectly responsible for exterminating and creating endangered species.

By the onset of the 21st century, there were no parts of the Earth free from some type
of chemical pollution.  Furthermore, the threat posed by atmospheric pollution and
climate change threatens to degrade and destroy habitats for creatures from polar bears
to plankton.

Were that not enough, these threats tend to multiply.  Amphibians are one example:
pesticide poisoning of the water weakened their natural immunity to fungus that has
already wiped out several species and critically endangered many others.

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