Conflict between conservation and poverty

Two important issues in today’s society are poverty and the loss of biodiversity in our natural world. Though seemingly unrelated, these two concepts impact each other when they are in close contact. Similarly, they are also influenced by the same environmental and societal factors and consequences. A few of these extraneous factors include climate change, deforestation, and tourism. Like ecological systems, many of these factors are interconnected and influence each other as well. How poverty and biodiversity are related, the ways in which they influence each other, and how they are affected by similar components are explored and discussed in order to determine how these factors should be considered in the attempt to combat either global poverty or the loss of biodiversity.