Conservation and Presevation

Question 1

What is conservation?

Answer 1

• the sustainable use and management of ecosystems

Question 2

How is conservation achieved?

Answer 2

• prevent ecosystems being destroyed
• allows sustainable use of natural resources
• management - controls the vary resources are used
• includes restoration of ecosystems e.g. reforestation

Question 3

What are the economic uses of conservation?

Answer 3

• maintains the long term sustainable use of natural resources
• undiscovered resources
  e.g. drug molecules, wood, food

Question 4

What are the social uses of conservation?

Answer 4

• people enjoy them
  e.g. safari, bird watching

Question 5

What are the ethical uses of conservation?

Answer 5

• organisms have a right to life
• it is unethical to cause species

Question 6

what is preservation?

Answer 6

• keeping an ecosystem in a untouched state

Question 7

How is preservation achieved?

Answer 7

• no removal of resources
  e.g. logging, mining, fishing
• limit human access/tourism
  e.g. Antarctica