Question
Describe the advantages for keeping the ecosystems healthy.

Answer

  1. Purify air/purify water.
  2. Mitigates drought/mitigates flood.
  3. Cycle nutrients.
  4. Generate fertile soil.
  5. Provide wildlife habitat.
  6. Maintain biodiversity.
  7. Pollinate crop.
  8. Provide storage site for carbon.
  9. Provide aesthetic value/provide cultural value/provide spiritual value.
  10. Provide stable food chain.
  11. Provide economically useful forest produces.

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