Pakistan, Dec. 3 -- Biodiversity is the diversity of life on Earth. It's such a hallmark of nature that varies with the variability of living species like microorganisms, plants, animals to coral reefs, forests, rainforests, and deserts with their specific existence on Earth. Today, we are experiencing biodiversity loss and it is estimated that in the last five decades, we have already lost more than 60 percent of the planet's biodiversity.

In this course, tropical rainforests cover only 7% of Earth's land surface and they contain more than half the species in the entire world's biota. They are the most fragile among all habitats that they will mostly disappear in the next century, taking with them hundreds of thousands of species to ext...