Grace James
The Green Institute Internship, Covenant University Canaan Land, Ota Ogun State. Email: grace.james@stu.cu.edu.ng

Abstract

The components of the Environment in which we live are one that must be studied by those who live within its confines. Classified into mainly Macro and Microorganisms, the ecosystem is a complex environment affected by natural and anthropogenic factors. Each Organism in the Ecosystem by “ design” is saddled with its own roles, obligations, and regulations to play in the Ecosystem; with a primary goal of maintaining balance in the Ecosystem. With this, we can conclude that humans, as well as plants and even organisms, are connected in the “big cycle” of life, from conception or sprouting to eventual death. In the quest for industrialization and progression, The Human race made compromises to the already balanced state of the Ecosystem. Anthropogenic factors such as the felling of trees for heat sources, filling water bodies to create artificial islands to accommodate bridges and houses for the progression of the human race affected the balance of the Ecosystem. The imbalance created by these factors are effects to the actions previously taken due to poor decision-making, insufficient knowledge of the needed balance in the Ecosystem, and sometimes greed which have disrupted the structure of the natural behavior in the Ecosystem.