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NEET2019BotanyBiodiversity and its ConservationActual

Which of the following is the most important cause for animals and plants being driven to extinction?

Options

  1. AHabitat loss and fragmentation
  2. BDrought and floods
  3. CEconomic exploitation
  4. DAlien species invasion

Correct answer

A. Habitat loss and fragmentation

Step-by-step solution

Destruction of Habitat – It is currently the biggest cause of current extinctions. Deforestation has killed off more species than we can count. Whole ecosystems live in our forests. It is predicted that all our rainforest can disappear in the next 100 years if we cannot stop deforestation. Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay. Causes of habitat fragmentation in

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