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Describe the effect of land development on biodiversity?

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  • The effect of land development on biodiversity has resulted in the habitat destroyed, the ecosystem is destroyed, species extinctions, and overexploited.
  • An increase in urbanization, human activities is the main cause of land development and this has affected biodiversity.
  • development in land includes activities such as clearing of land, increasing the intensity of a landscape, removal of vegetation, filling of the land, grading, construction, dredging has resulted in the loss of wildlife, affected the biota, threatened the ecosystems, species.
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