9.2

• Importance of wetlands

  • Shoreline Protection
  • Water quality maintenance
  • Flood Control
  • Provide habitats
• Causes of habitat loss - Draining Wetlands

  • Wetlands can be drained for agricultural, forestry and mosquito control purpouses
  • When pollutants are disharged into wetlands the habitad cna be destroyed or cause death of organisims
• Causes of habitat loss - IAP

  Wetlands are drained to provide extra space for Intensive agricultural pratices wich result in habitat loss.
• Causes of Habitat loss - Deforestation

  Deforestation is the destruction and removal of trees in a forest that is later converted into non forest use.
• Impacts of habitat loss - Extinction

  the process by which a species or other named group ceases to exist on Earth or other named area.
• Impacts of habitat loss - Loss of biodiversity

  Various species die or are forced to relocate when their habitat is destroyed.
• Impacts of habitat loss - Genetic depletion

  The loss of species containing potentially useful genes.