'The destruction of forests and wildlife is not just a biological issue'. Explain.

The destruction of forests and wildlife is not just a biological issue: 

(i)The biological loss is strongly correlated with the loss of cultural diversity.

(ii)Such losses have increasingly marginalised and impoverished many indigenous and other forest-dependent communities, who directly depend on various components of the forest and wildlife for food, drink, medicine, culture, spirituality, etc. Within the poor, women are affected more than men.

(iii)In many societies, women bear the major responsibility of collection of fuel, fodder, water and other basic subsistence needs.

(iv)As these resources are depleted, the drudgery of women increases and sometimes they have to walk for more than 10 km to collect these resources.

(v)This causes serious health problems for women and negligence of home and children because of the increased hours of work, which often has serious social implications.