Conservation and Preservation

Question 1

what is conservation?

Answer 1

maintenance/ improvement of biodiversity involving human intervention
- maintaining species, genetic diversity and also a range of habitats and ecosystems

Question 2

what is perseveration?

Answer 2

maintenance of habitats and ecosystems in their present condition and minimises human impact

Question 3

what are some conservation strategies?

Answer 3

• creating national parks
• zoos/botanic gardens
• raise carrying capacity by providing extra food
• control poachers
• vaccinate individuals against disease
• short-cutting succession and re-establish original community
• replace a disrupted community with a slightly different community

Question 4

what are threats to biodiversity?

Answer 4

• over-exploitation of wild populations
• habitat disruption and fragmentation
• introduction of non-native species

Question 5

what are the three reasons for conservation?

Answer 5

ethical, economic and social

Question 6

what are ethical reasons?

Answer 6

• every organism has the right to survive and live in the way they have become adapted
• humans have responsibility to look at species

Question 7

what are economical reasons?

Answer 7

natural ecosystems provide us with: food, fuel, timber and fertilisation of soil and you can recycle the nutrients
- ecosystems provide goods such as fish for free
- genetic diversity may be needed to breed disease resistance and improved yield in animals and plants and drought tolerance in plants
- ecotourism

Question 8

what are social reasons?

Answer 8

• aesthetic reasons
• peoples well being , mental, emotional and physical