The paper aims at describing the concept of biodiversity and how it is at risk of great extinction. The term biodiversity is the contraction of biological diversity which essentially reflects the life on earth. This is actually a concept which describes the variety and variability of organisms within the living world in terms of all species, animals, bacterias, and micro-organisms including inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic and ecological complexes (Business and Biodiversity Resource Center, 2012).
The biodiversity can be measured in terms of genes, species and ecosystems which can be calculated through ...