Despite natural extinctions, global biodiversity on Earth shows a tendency towards growth. The world acts as a system that accumulates solar energy, an energy that is spread and transformed to invigorate the process of formation of new species.

However, the information available about the current time points towards a path of loss of biodiversity, accentuated in recent decades. The current biodiversity crisis is characterised by being very intense and is caused in a great part by the intervention of mankind.