What is meant by habitat destruction?
A habitat is defined as sort of the address where an organism lives. And so if you can describe all those different features of that address, then you are describing the habitat of an organism. So, for instance, a salamander might like moist forest, and it might like to live in places where there are a lot of fallen logs, so its habitat would be intact, maybe old mature forest that has a lot of fallen, woody debris, as it’s called, lying on the ground. So any activity that destroys or removes that kind of habitat is considered “habitat destruction.” You’re actually taking away the home that that particular organism needs in order to make its living. What is the role of that loss in terms of lost biodiversity? Well, probably the principal cause of the loss of biological diversity or “biodiversity” is the destruction of habitat. There are other causes of the loss of biodiversity of certain species. There are some species that are specifically targeted for exploitation, such as over-fishi
