The depletion of ecosystems is often due to the over-exploitation of their resources. Although these activities may serve a short-term economic goal, this kind of exploitation can actually lead to direct adverse effects on social *** in the medium and long terms.
In the case of tropical forest degradation, population growth, **, environmentally damaging government subsidies, environmentally unsustainable export policies, ** to appreciate the ecology of natural systems and, as a consequence, *** to value the ecological services that the ecosystem provides can lead to degradation.
Human activity is causing environmental degradation, which is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
