The 14% of the world’s bird population has already vanished due to human consumption on those. Now the remaining 48% of the surviving world’s bird population left is facing a decline in population due to the climate changes influencing their natural habitat and the human footprints affecting the natural world.
Birds and our ecosystem
Birds form the most critical web in the global ecosystem. Being valued culturally, philosophically, and artistically in some parts of the world still they came under one of the threatened species in the world. Birds build a clean ecosystem around us for our survival. They spread seeds from another to the stigma of another flower helping in cross-pollination which later will increase around 5% of the density of plants grown. They clean up the waste and control the pests too.
Current data
Over 13.5% of the 10,994 recognized species are facing extinction. Due to overexploitation and facing various changes in the natural climate conditions in their habitats, the avian population is on the verge. The various practices of using birds as food and as exotic pets itself are an example of exploitation.
Out of 60% of the surviving population of birds, 37% of bird species were used as exotic pets and approximately 14% were consumed as food. Using data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List (IUCN), the India-based Nature conservation foundation will review and analyze the facts and figures. The 4,295 of the avian species had a remarkable increasing population trend and 39% records stable trends.
Trophic cascades
An ecological phenomenon is known as “Trophic cascades” causes reversible changes in the natural food chain. The addition and removal of the predators present at the top of the food chain drastically change the nutrient cycle and ultimately affects the normal structure of our ecosystem.
We as humans need to understand the fact that destroying their habitats will not only affect them but will affect us too in the long run. Their population is declining at a very fast rate. If some remediation for this scenario is not reached, soon they will get extinct and our ecosystem will no longer be existing naturally.
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