Conservation = the management of our environment to maintain biodiversity.
- Biodiversity encompasses genetic diversity (the variety of alleles within a species), species diversity (the variety of species within a habitat) and habitat diversity (the variety of habitats within an ecosystem).
The global gene pool is a resource for learning more about life on Earth, and some genes may be able to provide us with useful products for medicine and biotechnology.
To maintain the gene pool we need to preserve species diversity and to conserve species diversity we must provide suitable niches for all species by preserving habitat diversity. So a key aim of conservation is to prevent further destruction of habitats and preserve as wide a range of habitats as possible.
Conservation is therefore not a matter of leaving the environment untouched.
Instead conservation involves active intervention to manage succession and maintain a wide variety of different plagioclimaxes.
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