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Introduction To SDG 15

SDG Goal 15 focuses on protecting and sustainably managing terrestrial ecosystems to combat land degradation and biodiversity loss. It highlights the importance of biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being, while identifying threats such as habitat loss, overexploitation, and pollution. The document emphasizes sustainable practices like forest management, reforestation, and improved irrigation to combat these challenges.

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Introduction To SDG 15

SDG Goal 15 focuses on protecting and sustainably managing terrestrial ecosystems to combat land degradation and biodiversity loss. It highlights the importance of biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being, while identifying threats such as habitat loss, overexploitation, and pollution. The document emphasizes sustainable practices like forest management, reforestation, and improved irrigation to combat these challenges.

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Life on Land:

Protecting Earth's
Ecosystems
SDG GOAL 15
Introduction
SDG 15 aims to "protect, restore and
promote sustainable use of
terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably
manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse
land degradation and biodiversity
loss".

This goal recognizes the


The importance of
terrestrial
ecosystems
• Biodiversity
Terrestrial ecosystems are home
to a vast array of plant and
animal species, many of which are
still undiscovered.
• Climate Regulation
Forests, grasslands, and other
land-based habitats play a crucial
role in sequestering carbon,
regulating the climate, and
mitigating the effects of climate
• Human Wellbeing
change.
Healthy terrestrial ecosystems
provide essential resources, such
as food, water, and building
materials, that support human
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Threats to biodiversity and
natural habitats

Habitat Overexploit Climate Pollution


Loss ation Change
Conversion of Unsustainable Rising Plastic waste,
land for logging, temperatures, chemical
agriculture, poaching, and changing contaminants,
urbanization, and illegal wildlife precipitation and improper
infrastructure trade are patterns, and waste
development is a depleting extreme weather management are
major driver of natural events are harming soil,
biodiversity loss. resources and disrupting the water, and air
endangering delicate balance quality.
Threats to biodiversity and
natural habitats

Ecosystem Water Threats to Economic


Services at Purification Food Stability
Risk Challenges Security Risks
Loss of Diminished Ecosystem
Biodiversity
biodiversity biodiversity degradation can
contributes to
compromises affects crop destabilize
natural filtration
services like resilience, economies
processes, vital
pollination, threatening reliant on natural
for clean water
crucial for food global food resources and
access.
production. supply chains. tourism.
Sustainable forest
management
SustainablCommunit
Afforestat e y
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Planting new trees Implementing Engaging local

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and restoring selective logging communities in the
degraded forests and other management and
to increase forest practices that protection of
cover and allow forests to forest resources
sequester carbon. regenerate and for their long-term
maintain their benefit.
ecological
Combating desertification and land
degradation
Improved Sustainable
Irrigation Reforestation Farming
Implementing Planting drought- Promoting
water-effi cient resistant trees and sustainable
irrigation vegetation to agricultural
techniques to stabilize soils and practices, such as
support prevent further crop rotation and
agriculture in arid land degradation. soil conservation,
and semi-arid to improve soil
health.
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