Impacts Of Agriculture

Question 1

Practices that remove habitats and species diversity

Answer 1

Removal of hedgerows and grabbing at woodland
Creating monocultures
Filling in ponds and draining marsh and other wetlands
Overgrazing of land

Question 2

Processes with indirect effects

Answer 2

Use of pesticides and inorganic fertilisers
Escape of efficient silage and slung tanks into water sources
Absence of crop rotation and lack of intercropping

Question 3

Conservation techniques

Answer 3

Maintain existing hedgerows 
Plant hedges rather than fences
Maintain and create new ponds
Leave wet corners of feilds rather than draining them 
Plant native trees in land
Reduce use of pesticides 
Use crop rotation 
Use intercropping 
Create natural meadows