Unit 1: Habitat Conservation
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- Habitat Conservation
- Protected Areas - established through land ownership and designation
- Does not protect the area from damaging external influences e.g. air pollution
- NNRs, SSSIs, SPAs, SACs and Ramsar Sites
- Habitat Management - habitats often are actively maintained for conservation
- Increases the sustainability of a habitat to human influences
- Creates semi-natural habitats e.g chalk grassland, moorland, hay meadow
- Involves maintaining management practises e.g. grazing, burning cycles
- Maybe necessary to remove invasive species e.g. removals of shrubs or trees
- Sometimes provide optimum conditions for a certain species e.g. bird boxes, planting nectar plants and hedges
- Habitat Creation - habitats created for species with no existing habitat available
- Very difficult to produce a particular set of conditions needed for survival
- Difficult to ensure that all members of an ecosystem are present
- Human activities sometimes unintentionally create good habitats
- Roadside verges
- Flooded quarries or gravel pits e.g. Hay Tor Quarry
- Reservoirs
- Urban gardens and parkland
- Protected Areas - established through land ownership and designation
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