🌍 Biodiversity Loss Simulator

🤔 What Is This?

Biodiversity loss is the decline in the variety of life on Earth — from genes to species to entire ecosystems. Species are disappearing at 100-1,000 times the natural background rate, driven by habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and invasive species. When keystone species vanish, entire food webs can collapse in a cascade of secondary extinctions.

Why it matters: Ecosystems provide essential services — pollination, water purification, carbon sequestration, and flood control — worth trillions of dollars annually. Losing biodiversity weakens these services and threatens human well-being, food security, and the stability of the biosphere itself.