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Biodiversity and Conservation — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYBiodiversity and Conservation3 Marks
Question
What do you mean by fragmented habitat? Give one example.
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Answer

Destruction of habitat is the most important cause of extinction of both plants and animals species, e.g. dui to habitat loss, 14% of the earth's land surface covered by tropical rainforest is now limited to only 60 loss in the last few years.
The Amazon rainforest (lungs of the planet) are also being cut and destroyed for cultivation of soybean or is converted to grasslands for raising beef cattle. Besides total loss, the degradation of many habitats by pollution also threatens the survival of many species.

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