Importance of Flora and Fauna

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

All forms of plant life existing on earth are part of a group called flora, while animal species belong to the category that makes up fauna. The evolution of both has been a dynamic process with permanent exchange between members, through which the changes generated in a species have stimulated the changes of another, despite belonging to completely different kingdoms from each other, in order to maintain the existing energy flow on the planet and the possibility of survival for all living beings through a fair distribution of the abundance of resources available for the life.

Balance between species

Plants provide shelter and food for most animal species, in the same way, they also provide among their fantastic properties healing substances that can be exploited by everyone, especially by humans, both for their own benefit, and for the development of medicines with which to treat the conditions of others animals.

Another aspect to highlight about the importance of flora is the impact that plant diversity generates on the dynamics of the different environmental phenomena and soil fertility, to which they provide indisputable protection against the erosive power of water and winds, contributing in turn in multiple ways in the cycle of the vital liquid, so that it can continue to flow on the earth's surface, thus preserving the life on the planet.

On the other hand, the entire fauna repays the benefits received from the flora by helping to maintain the balance between the populations of plant species. Phenomena such as the pollination of flowers for the development of fruits and the dispersal of seeds in more distant territories, are made possible thanks to the intervention of animals, through dynamics and strategies that have been perfected throughout of the millennia through the coevolution of the species of flora and fauna that have kept interacting in the various biomes.

Ecology at the service of all

Due to the profound importance of the existing flora and fauna on our planet, science has dedicated multiple areas to its study, highlighting the ecology above all, for being precisely the one in charge of understanding the development of the existing interactions between the different species of beings alive.

Despite all the scientific efforts to discover and analyze the species of terrestrial flora and fauna, there is still much to know and even more to learn based on manage to harmonize our own existence with other forms of life, minimize the impact of human activities and compensate the damage that has already been caused in against nature, making ecology a professional field that will continue to transcend through time and in which there will never be too many people dedicated to it. it.

humans without nature

Human evolution itself has been possible only due to the presence of the immense variety of other species present in the terrestrial flora and fauna, thanks to which humans were able to find food, shelter and many other blessings that have undoubtedly been made the most of possible, without measuring the consequences in the vast majority of cases, even going so far as to completely alter the delicate balance of ecosystems and extinguish species.

This practice of excessive use can certainly lead to the total loss of large ecosystems, with catastrophic consequences, not only for the flora and fauna that compose it, but for all other forms of life existing on the planet, including humans, of whom it has been widely demonstrated that we could not survive without the existence of the other species, while nature could well manage to live in perfect equilibrium without us, making it more than necessary not only to create and apply measures with which to control, reduce and compensate the damages caused by our existence, but at the same time develop a state of deep awareness about how humans affect flora and fauna on a daily basis and the mistreatment that We confer, with greater emphasis on other animals, for those who are just beginning to establish laws that can protect them from the unjustifiable suffering that they often suffer.

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