Maintaining Biodiversity

Last updated Jun 28, 2023 Edit

• Biology
• Biodiversity

• Conservation, preservation and management of the environment and natural resources
• Two types:
  • In situ
  • Ex situ

• maintains genetic diversity and ability to adapt
• preserves interdependent relationships
• cheaper
• eg wildlife reserves, marine conservation zones

• normally used in conjunction with in-situ measures
• eg, botanical gardens, seed banks, captive breeding programs

• Publishes conservation status of threatened animals (RED list)
• Establishment of CITES (Convention on Internal Trade of Endangered Species)
  • regulates international trade of plant/animal specimens and their products

• Convention of Biological Diversity—strategies for sustainable development
• United Nations framework convention on climate change—agreement to stabilise greenhouse gases.
• United Nations Convention to combat desertification
  • prevents transformation of fertile land to desert
  • reduce the effects of drought

• Enhance and conserve English landscape
  • sustain beauty and biodiversity
  • improve/extend/create habitats for wildlife
  • restoring neglected land, conserving archaeological/historic features
  • improve opportunities for countryside enjoyment
  • now replaced by the Environment Stewardship Scheme

Biodiversity