Maintaining biodiversity

Question 1

Why have breeding programmes been set up?

Answer 1

Help endangered species, animals are breed in captivity so species survives and some of the individuals can be released into the wild to boost population

Question 2

What is habitat protection?

Answer 2

There to regenerate rare habitat’s which helps the species that live there. The can be programmes to reintroduce hedgerows and field margins where only a single crops is being grown these can provide habitat’s for many organisms

Question 3

How do we prevent global warming?

Answer 3

Governments have introduced regulations and programmes to reduce deforestation and the amount of c02 being released by business

Question 4

How do we reduce waste?

Answer 4

By recycling which could reduce the amount of land that is taken up by landfill

Question 5

What are the costs of the programmes?

Answer 5

Government could pay farmers to reintroduce hedgerows and it can also cost money to watch the programmes have regulations designed to protect the biodiversity. There is conflict between saving money and keeping the biodiversity

Question 6

What is food security?

Answer 6

There can be a conflict between keeping food security and protecting biodiversity, some organism can be considered as pests to farmers which means they can be killed to protect the crops

Question 7

Why is the development of the society important?

Answer 7

Many people want to protect biodiversity for development but can cost money so they can pay people like farmers. Sometimes loads of people want sometimes land that has never been touched has to be sued for housing development