2: Conservation treaties

Question 1

What is a National nautre reserve and how is it managed?

Answer 1

• Covers almost every type of vegetation
• managed by natural england/natural enland approved organisations such as the RSPB
• intitally establish to protext sensitive feature and provide outdoor laborties, but their purpose has since broadened

Question 2

What are SSSI’s?

Answer 2

• Tripple S I’s are sites of special scientific interest and are legally protected sites
• these areas have intereseting and rare biological and geological features

Question 3

What is a national nature reserve?

Answer 3

A protected area under UK legislation, which protects the best examples of complete communities of species or habiat types.

Question 4

What is a local nature reserve?

Answer 4

A protected are under natural england that aims to conserve wildlife while equally allowing engagement and teaching people about wildlife.

Question 5

What is a special area of conservation?

Answer 5

Areas of internation importance protected by the EUs habitat directive.

Question 6

What is a special protection area?

Answer 6

AIm to protect birds under EUs Birds directive

Question 7

Why should we conserve biodiversity?

Answer 7

• biomimetics (technology)
• medicines
• religious reasons
• eco-tourism
• stable foodchains
• moral
• aesthetics
• food

Question 8

What is a Vavilov centre?

Answer 8

The place by which a crop originated from.

Question 9

What human threats are there to biodiversity?

Answer 9

• deforestation/habitat loss
• global warming impacting range of tolerance
• poaching for traditional medicines and clothing
• invasive species
• water pollution of plastics/oils/chemicals
• deliberate eradication of pests

Question 10

Why is the size of a habitat that an animal is reintroduced into important?

Answer 10

Larger animals require larger areas for e.g. catching food or mating
Smaller animals may not be able to travel such large distances so would struggle to find food or mates if in a too large enclosure.

Question 11

What organisms make up coral?

Answer 11

A coral is an animal, which has an algae living inside, which photosynthesises to make food for the coral.

Question 12

What factors do coral need to survive?

Answer 12

• Low turbidity
• warm water
• shallow water

Question 13

Why are coral reefs important?

Answer 13

• food (fisheries)
• protection from erosion
• tourism
• biodiversity
• medicine

Question 14

What threats are there to coral reefs?

Answer 14

• rising sea temperatures
• removing coral/damage
• pollution (oil spills, eutriphication, acidification)
• increasing turbidity
• loss of supporting species such as mangrove swamps

Question 15

What is RAMSAR?

Answer 15

A law passed fo the protection of wetlands

Question 16

What is the area called which protects birds?

Answer 16

SPA - special protection area

Question 17

What is CITES?

Answer 17

Convention on Internation Trades of Endangered Species

• international agreement to make sure trade in wild animals and plants doesn’t threaten their survival
• can be appendix 1 where all trade is banned on that species, or appendix 2, where some trade is allowed.

Question 18

What special areas come under the wildlife and countryside act?

Answer 18

• national nature reserves
• special areas of conservation (europe) SAC
• special protection area (birds) SPA
• Ramsar (wetlands)
• SSSIs (scientific interest)

Question 19

What comes under the enviromental stewardship scheme?

Answer 19

• agri-environmental schemes which provided financial support to farmers to reward and encourage environmental beneficial development
  -a single farm payment (DEFRA) for:
  hedgerow planting
  -field buffer strips
  -wild bird seeds
  -low input grassland
  -promoting public footpaths