Maintaining biodiversity
- Created by: Natasha Granville
- Created on: 13-05-18 19:14
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- Maintaining biodiversity
- Reasons
- Aesthetic reasons
- enriches our lives
- provides inspiration
- helps patients recover from stress and injury
- Economic reasons
- raw materials for industry
- medicine
- Ecological reasons
- species are interdependent
- food chains
- keystone species
- essential for maintaining biodiversity
- disproportionately large effect on the environment relative to their abundance
- genetic variation
- species are interdependent
- Ethical reasons
- right to exist
- Aesthetic reasons
- In situ conservation - within the natural habitat
- Wildlife reserves
- area of land that is protected and managed in order to preserve a habitat and its endangered species
- active management
- controlled grazing
- restricting human access
- removal of invasive species
- Marine conservation zones
- areas of refuge within which populations can build up and repopulate adjacent areas
- Wildlife reserves
- Ex situ conservation
- botanic gardens
- plant species are provided with the most suitable resources for growth
- seed banks
- seeds are dried and stored at -20*C
- ensures they don't lose the ability to germinate
- provides a back-up against the extinction of wild plants
- ensures they don't lose the ability to germinate
- seeds are dried and stored at -20*C
- captive breeding programmes
- produce offspring in a human-controlled environment
- create a stable population of a species then release it back into its natural habitat
- botanic gardens
- Conservation agreements
- CITES
- regulates international trade in endangered species
- CBD
- resulted from Rio Earth Summit
- requires countries to develop strategies for sustainable development
- CSS
- England 1991 - 2014
- government payments to farmers/ land managers to enhance and conserve natural landscape
- CITES
- Reasons
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