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Biodiversity Conservation: Balancing Food Security with Biodiversity Protection

Sylvia Herrmann^{* *}Correspondence: Sylvia Herrmann, Department of Forest Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Email:

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Biodiversity around the planet is at harm. The protection of biodiversity might be altered by synthetic biology in both bad and good ways, both directly and indirectly. Yet, using these biotechnology innovations to address environmental issues is risky and may undermine cultures, values, livelihoods, and the environment. Synthetic biology for conservation decisions should be considered in light of the reality of continuous biodiversity loss. The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which will direct government and other stakeholders' actions for the following ten years to protect the world's biodiversity, is being negotiated by 196 parties to the United Nations Biological Diversity Convention.

Synthetic biologists, environmentalists, and decision-makers have all worked alone up until this point. This research brought several points of view together at this critical time. Since it is necessary for such a convention and initiative that will primarily focus on the potential use of these technologies to conserve biodiversity.

Loss of biodiversity lowers ecosystem production, which has an adverse effect on the world economy. Despite the fact that the economy depends on diversity or its ecological processes and despite the fact that there are more and more sustainable businesses throughout the world, few businesses create Biodiversity Conservation Actions (BCA) to help ecosystems. Here, researchers looked into how five sustainable businesseswhich manage more than 1,130,000 hectares across five different Brazilian biomes-relate to biodiversity preservation.

Researchers theorized that eco-friendly businesses create BCA to lessen their adverse effects on the environment and encourage the renewal of ecological systems they had previously used. They classified and evaluated the BCA listed in each company's annual sustainability report, which totaled 5420 pages between 2011 and 2018. Studies found 90% of the units, did not reduce any harmful environmental effects, and discovered that there was no BCA that took into account all of a company's production units and that the majority of conservation efforts were concentrated in only a few places, many of which were mandated by law.

Businesses are more focused on cost-saving measures for Environmental Management Systems than on reestablishing ecosystems. By including BCA into the sustainability tripod's conceptual framework, Researchers demonstrate the possibility of interrupting the "Jevons Paradox". The environmental services should then be utilized as a ballast to support an economic expansion that respects both the present and future generations once BCA has benefited them.

The secret to sustainable growth worldwide is striking a balance between food security and biodiversity protection. At the national and Biodiversity Hotspot (BH) levels, however, nothing is known about the potential international conflict risk hotspots between biodiversity and food security. Initially, it created the Global Food Security Index (GFSI), included data on species richness (including birds, mammals, and amphibians), and produced Land Use Intensity Index (LUII) based on future land use modeling (GFSI). To determine the potential global conflict hazard hotspots between biodiversity conservation and food security using Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) and a bivariate choropleth map.

A practical conservation plan must take into account present profiles, evolutionary and historical development, and historical development. Separating places with strong potential growth from those experiencing iterative development bottlenecks and for someone whose development has been badly harmed is equally important. In order to address the concerns, researchers utilized two sizable national data sources of Chinese terrestrial flora and animals. The findings show that the most substantial Terrestrial Faunal-Floral Biodiversity (TFFB) is found in the Southwest and Coastal areas. They ought to be given top priority in conservation because of the huge potential for promotions. Even beyond the consequent increase that has occurred, the Central area has been impacted.