Biodiversity and conservation
- Created by: vezting
- Created on: 10-04-16 11:04
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- Biodiversity and conservation
- maintaining biodiversity
- economic: products derived from plants and animals may be traded on local or global scale
- ecological: we should conserve species because it is the right thing to do, species have the right to exist
- asthetic: because it brings joy to many people and makes more areas pleasant and attractive
- aggricultural: our food comes from plants, could save us from a natural famine disaster, and you can get new varieties from cross breeding and pollinators needed for growth
- social: osome plants are needed for medical resource, and some that are not discovered now may be of use later
- in-situ conservation
- Eg natural parks,
- controlling species that threaten the biodiversity,
- protecting endangered species
- promoting particular species,
- restoring damaged area,
- protecting habitats,
- Advantages- larger populations protected, less distruptiv
- disadvantages- cant controll poaching, predators or climate change
- Ex-Situ conservation
- Eg relocation conservation (zoo) botanical gardens, seed banks
- advantages- protect individual animals so direct care, competition reduced, health and disease monitored
- Disadvantages- small scale, expensive, less usccessful
- maintaining biodiversity
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