Do you want to know on this international biodiversity day, how biodiversity has helped humans from many deadly diseases.
We all live in a world where various types of flora and fauna are existing. None of them are useless. Everyone and everything has its own importance. Being part of nature we have to accept all the components of nature as it is. It's our ignorance that is making us believe that we are the only to live here, rest if anything survives, must be only for our petty greed which results to unnecessary deforestation etc.
And in this ignorance we damage biodiversity and start creating problems to ourselves.
Let us explore through one simple example.
As per information provided by website ( https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditio...),The West Nile virus is spread by mosquitoes. The West Nile virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses, and some other mammals. Most often, the West Nile virus causes mild, flu-like symptoms. But, the virus can cause life-threatening illnesses, such as Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain),Meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord),Meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and its surrounding membrane).
As depicted in image, how exactly we are saved upto large extent from deadly viruses like West Nile virus because of birds which consume this deadly virus's vector that is mosquitoes. Birds like purple martins, swallows, waterfowl (geese, terns, ducks) and migratory songbirds usually eat both the adult and aquatic stages of mosquitoes.This biodiversity is actually acting as a buffer system and preventing us from getting infected to deadly viruses.
Start respecting everything and everyone even if we don't know it's importance. We need a principle which will develop respect for everything and everyone and control our greed.
“We’re part of the solution #ForNature."
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