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-fishing or over-hunting of particular animals, and they can be lost as a component of biodiversity that way. But by and large, the way species are lost and populations and genetic strains which are all components of biodiversity, the way they’re lost from natural systems is through destroying the habitat, taking away the places that they need in order to make their living in the world. What is a zoonotic disease? A zoonotic disease is a disease in which the pathogen, the virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan-there are many different kinds of pathogens, of disease-causing organisms-in the case of zoonotic diseases, the origin of that pathogen is in some animal population in the wild. So there are diseases like influen
