Unit 1: The Rationale for Wildlife Conservation
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- The Rationale for Wildlife Conservation
- Knowledge + Understanding
- Study primates to learn about social structures
- Understand the interdependence of species
- Biomimetics e.g. using birds to develop aircraft wings
- Aesthetics + Recreation
- Seeing wildlife improves life quality
- Morals
- Organisms have a right to life
- Usually subjective
- Organisms have a right to life
- Ethics
- Poorer countries have to exploit wildlife for food - is this wrong?
- Economics
- Medical benefits - both physiological and in the development of new medicines
- Food resources - domesticating new species and using wild animals for breeding programmes
- Other material resources
- Timber
- Fibers
- Dyes
- Earth's Life Support Systems
- Maintenance of the atmosphere
- Soil formation and conservation
- Species Interdependence
- Food supplies
- Pollination
- Seed dispersal
- Habitat provision
- Knowledge + Understanding
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