NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The unsustainable use of natural resources and overexploitation, which occurs when harvesting exceeds reproduction of wild plant and animal species, continues to be a major threat to biodiversity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overexploitation or overfishing is the removal of marine living resources to levels that are too low for sustaining viable populations. Ultimately, overexploitation can lead to resource depletion and put a number of threatened and endangered species at risk of extinction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overexploitation occurs if a water resource, such as the Ogallala Aquifer, is mined or extracted at a rate that exceeds the recharge rate, that is, at a rate that exceeds the practical sustained yield. Recharge usually comes from area streams, rivers and lakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -the act of using too much of something, especially a natural resource (= minerals, forests, coal, etc. that exist in a place and can be used by people): Man’s over-exploitation of the earth’s resources has led to more and more people starving to death. Cod stocks have plummeted through overexploitation by fisheries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Overexploitation means harvesting species from the wild at rates faster than natural populations can recover. Overfishing and overhunting are both types of overexploitation.