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title: Biodiversity and Biological Diversity or Biodiversity Loss
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## Definition

**Biodiversity** or **Biological Diversity** means the variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part. This includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

**Biodiversity** means the wide-ranging variety of life forms that inhabit a particular habitat or ecosystem.

**Biodiversity Loss** means the reduction of any aspect of Biological Diversity in a particular area, which can be lost through death (including extinction), destruction or manual removal.