Reasons for Conservation: Extended
- There are numerous reasons why conservation programmes are important
- Maintaining or increasing biodiversity
- Which allows ecosystems to remain stable
- Reducing extinction
- Helps to retain iconic species and maintain biodiversity
- Protecting vulnerable ecosystems which would have been quickly lost to human activity
- Maintaining ecosystem functions
- Nutrient cycling eg. carbon cycling to hold back climate change
- Resource provision, such as
- Food - making sure we have enough for the population
- Drugs - having access to plants for plant-based remedies
- Fuel - for improtant activities such as cooking
- Genes - so the gene pool remains wide and variety exists in all species
- Maintaining or increasing biodiversity