Why is protecting natural habitat important?

Answer 1

Protecting natural habitat is important because plants, animals, and people need Natural Resources for survival. Humans rely on the earth's ecosystems for basic needs such as food, water, and air.

Answer 2

It provides food, shelter, water, space to facilitate their niche, and places to raise young for that certain animal.
To help the creature or person live and to increase the animals population.

Answer 3

They are important because a habitat is something where something lives.Everything needs a home including animals!Animals are really important because some of them provide us with food and clothing.

Answer 4

Some plants cant grow in other places because every piece of land has its own texture and soil that some plants cant grow in, take sand or clay for example. What types of plants do you think can't grow there? Think about it.

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Answer 5

Lolli6627's answer:

It is important to save animal habitats because they provide the animal with their basic needs.

• Food (For nourishment, nutrients and minerals for energy, and therefore the survival of the animal)
• Water (unless it obtains it's hydration from it's food)
• Shelter (for protection)
• Mating grounds (for reproduction)
• It's own territory (if it is territorial)

If these are not available to an animal because it hasn't got a suitable habitat, this can lead the animals to extinction in the wild, or totally wipe them out. This would mean a huge affect to the ecosystem in which it lives, affecting the food chain. If the species is extinct from habitat destruction, it is highly likely more animals will be directly affected because of food shortages.

If an animal species eat pests, this will also become a nuisance to humans and other animals in and near the habitat.

A good example of habitat destruction is the tropical forests that are home to Orangutans. Their habitat is being used for palm oil plantations, and if an Orangutan gets seen eating the plants it is shot. There are many programs to prevent the extinction, including the protection of the habitat and re-introducing the animal into the habitat to reproduce and raise the population.

I hope this answers your question!

Lolli6627

Glossary:

population - The number of individuals of the same species in an ecosystem

ecosystem - An environment in where organisms live

habitat - A specialised area where an organism prefers/does live

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Answers added by other contributors:

Answer 6

A habitat is where an animals live. It is important because it gives researchers better understanding of the animals and without it, animals would not be able to live.

Answer 7

well because if you dont then animals could end up dying and the animals that eat that other animal will end up dying too. some day there might be no animals left on the human world!!

Answer 8

because if we don't the animals may become extint

Answer 9

so the animals don't become extinct