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Why conserve?

What’s Environmental Conservation

Environmental Conservation is one of the longest-standing, most highly-cited of the international interdisciplinary environmental journals. It includes research papers, reports, comments, perspectives and subject reviews addressing environmental natural and social science, and environmental policy and practice, informed by rigorous studies at local to global scales. So, What Exactly is Environmental Conservation? Environmental conservation is the practice […]

16 Exceptional Reasons Why Wildlife Conservation is Important Today

Human activities like agriculture expansion, logging, and poaching are usually the biggest causes of flora and fauna extinction and biodiversity loss. Over the last four decades, human activities have greatly pushed some animal species to near extinction with an estimated loss of about 10,000 species per year accounting for losing half of the world’s wildlife population. For example, poachers […]

The Father of Conservation

Saturday marks the birthday of Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forests Service. He is known as the “father of conservation” and is credited for launching the conservation movement in the United States by urging Americans to preserve the past in order to protect the future. When asked by his father as a young […]

What's Biodiversity Conservation?

What’s Biodiversity Conservation?

Biodiversity Conservation Definition “Biodiversity conservation refers to the protection, upliftment, and management of biodiversity in order to derive sustainable benefits for present and future generations.” What is Biodiversity Conservation? Biodiversity conservation is the protection and management of biodiversity to obtain resources for sustainable development. Biodiversity conservation has three main objectives: Let us have a detailed […]

Why conserve?

Why conserve?

Answer why conserve? Protect (something, especially something of environmental or cultural importance) from harm or destruction. (Oxford English Dictionary) Habitats are in a constant state of change through naturally occurring dynamics and human influence. But while natural change can be managed by the earth’s ecosystems, that which is imposed by humans often has devastating or irreversible effects […]