1. Indo-Burma, Asia Pacific
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The Indo-Burma hotspots in the Asia-Pacific region, with tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, have birds, freshwater turtles and fish species, including some of the world’s largest ones. Aquatic ecosystems comprise giant catfish and Jullien’s golden carp. While draining for wet rice cultivation destroy freshwater floodplain swamps and wetlands, dams flood sandbars and other habitats of fauna. Shrimp aquaculture ponds, overfishing and other fishing techniques, replacing mangroves, have destroyed coastal and freshwater ecosystems, leaving 5% of the original habitat.
To clear space for agricultural land, mineral exploitation and sprawling urban areas, humans are indiscriminately destroying forests, forgetting in the process that it isn’t just trees, animals and microorganisms, but the humans, too, who depend directly on forests basic needs, like clean air, stabilized climate, healthy soils, medicines, crop pollination and fresh water. While the whole subject might have almost become a cliché, but that also goes to say that the deterioration of the environment is a pressing issue. It is time to take notice and do our bit, even if it is only at microscopic levels.
–WonderList
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