Conservation And Reforestation

Question 1

What is conservation?

Answer 1

When an effort is made to protect a rare or endangered habitat or species

Question 2

What type of activities are conservation?

Answer 2

• Reforestation
• Captive breeding programmes
• Protection of endangered habitats

Question 3

What is an endangered species?

Answer 3

Species that are facing immediate threat from extinction due to damaging human activity

Question 4

Why are endangered species put in different categories?

Answer 4

Allows landowners , policy makers and the government to target species and the habitats they are in

Question 5

What % of the Earth’s land surface is covered by biodiversity hotspots?

Answer 5

2.3%, 34 biodiversity hotspots

Question 6

What is reforestation?

Answer 6

• The process of allowing woodland to be restored in a landscape
• Can be natural or man intervention

Question 7

What are the impacts of reforestation?

Answer 7

More tree species - more food types - more micro habitats- more insect species- more species of ….

Question 8

What are captive breeding programmes? (eg: Giant Pandas)

Answer 8

• Bred in captivity (sometimes using IVF)
• Reared with minimum human contact
• Released into protected bamboo forest and monitored for the rest of their lives

Question 9

How can human threats to endangered species be reduced/prevented?

Answer 9

Through legislation (housing, forestry, infrastructure etc)