What is Biodiversity?




Biodiversity is the saturation of any specified area’s ecosystem with a variety of living organisms inclusive of micro and macro organisms. Plants and animals thrive and survive when genetically diverse species populate an area which prevents species from breeding among close relations or between two weak species/organisms that cannot adapt to a changing environment.


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