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What Is Conservation?

Conservation involves protecting and carefully managing natural resources and habitats to reduce environmental degradation. It aims to keep habitats untouched by human activity, as seen in national parks. Conservation is important because humans rely on organisms in our environment for survival, through providing oxygen, food, and potential medical treatments. There are short-term and long-term ways to conserve the environment. Short-term actions include directly removing threats like litter or hazardous chemicals. Long-term actions target preventing future threats through stricter legislation and enforcement of laws regarding littering, chemical disposal, and unsustainable development. When conserving one species, the whole ecosystem benefits due to interconnected relationships between all organisms.

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What Is Conservation?

Conservation involves protecting and carefully managing natural resources and habitats to reduce environmental degradation. It aims to keep habitats untouched by human activity, as seen in national parks. Conservation is important because humans rely on organisms in our environment for survival, through providing oxygen, food, and potential medical treatments. There are short-term and long-term ways to conserve the environment. Short-term actions include directly removing threats like litter or hazardous chemicals. Long-term actions target preventing future threats through stricter legislation and enforcement of laws regarding littering, chemical disposal, and unsustainable development. When conserving one species, the whole ecosystem benefits due to interconnected relationships between all organisms.

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What is conservation?

Conservation is the protection, preservation and careful management of natural resources,


usually targeted at keeping alive the plants and animals in a specific habitat. It serves to reduce
the degradation of an environment. Conservation involves keeping the habitat untouched and
free of human interaction. One example of conservation is the immense system of natural areas
set aside as environments free of human activity, for example national parks and wildlife refuges.
Why conserve?
Our environment is important to us, it always has been, and always will be. It is so vital to
conserve the environment, because humans rely on the living organisms surrounding them to aid
in our survival. Plants and trees provide us with the oxygen we need along with the food that we
eat. They are also food for the animals we choose to eat.
Without our environment, we would be lost. Plants and forms of fungi are in the pharmaceutical
drugs we use when going through an illness. Scientists have estimated that of the 400 000 500
000 different species of known plants on Earth, only 10 per cent have been examined for their
chemical properties! With new diseases and illnesses popping up in our daily lives, how do we
not know that it is possible that a cure for them lies in the other 90 per cent? This is another
reason as to why it is so important to conserve our environment.
How to conserve?
There are two main ways to conserve the environment; through short term actions and long term
actions. These actions are required to maintain the biodiversity of a particular habitat.
Think of a local area, a park or beach that is littered with mounds of rubbish, cluttering the area
up and posing as a threat to the biodiversity of the area. A short term action to solve this would
be through conservationists removing the rubbish in the immediate term. They would need to
dispose of the rubbish sustainably, and make sure no natural habitats have been affected by it.
Other steps could be taken by bringing in more bins and using more signs to alert the general
public. A long term action would be to bring in legal action and have the government of each
area enforce stricter legislation on littering and the fines encumbered by it. This must be done in
the hope that it will counter the activities that are not environment friendly, lead to unsustainable
development, thus affecting the conservation of an environment.

Another example is the disposing of chemicals, oils, or other harmful substances down the drain,
the dumping of them under the ground, or in water bodies or burning them in the garden. These
actions have detrimental effects on the animals and plants of an environment. A short term action
would be for environmentalists and organisations to remove the substances from any animals that
may be affected, use other steps to stop the substances from spreading further, or by using
skimmer booms to remove the substances from the surface of water. A long term action would

be to again put greater force on the government to change and make stricter the laws regarding
the transportation and disposing of chemicals, in the hopes that future spills will be avoided.
When we work to conserve one type of species in an ecosystem, we are not only saving them,
but helping to conserve all of the other species in that ecosystem. This is because of their
interactions with each other. Each plant and animal in an ecosystem relies on the other to survive,
even in the smallest ways.

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