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How Many Types of Biodiversity Conservation

How Many Types of Biodiversity Conservation

Edited By Team Careers360 | Updated on May 16, 2023 03:29 PM IST

Introduction

There are two important strategies of biodiversity conservation.

1.In-situ conservation

2.Ex-situ conservation

A different variety of living organisms with whom we share the earth makes it a wonderful living place. Biodiversity refers to the diversity of living organisms including plants and their habitats which leads to sustainable growth in an ecosystem.

The term biodiversity was introduced by Walter Rosen in 1986.

Biodiversity is the accumulation of different life forms.In terms of area.India is the seventh largest country in the world.In this vast Area, it has different ecosystems, habitats, hills, valleys,river basins and so on.

Genetic diversity,species diversity and community diversity are the levels of biodiversity Biodiversity is determined by the number of species in an area at a particular period.

Biodiversity conservation is an act of preserving all natural ecosystems of flora and fauna in order to live a healthy life and derive sustainable benefits for the present and future generations.

In-situ conservation

In-situ conservation is the preservation of endangered species of plants and animals in its natural habitat rather than pretending to be its own.In-situ conservation also known as onsite conservation.

The techniques used for in-situ conservation includes biosphere reserves, wildlife sanctuaries, National park and so on.In India , there are 18 biosphere reserves,

105 National parks,553 Wild life sanctuaries and four biodiversity hotspots.

In this technique, a species population is allowed to self-replicate in its environment, thus paving the way for an organism to survive under circumstances that might be unfavourable.

It is the method for conserving threatened species and also its biodiversity at all levels of the ecosystem.

Examples:

1.Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary in Assam

2.Mudumalai National park in Nilgiris

3.Indira Gandhi National park in Coimbatore.

Ex-situ Conservation

Ex-situ conservation is the conservation of threatened species by placing them in an artificial environment pretending to be their own natural environment. A literal meaning of Ex-situ conservation is off-site conservation

It sorts out specific rare plants from a collection of plants and places them in an environment that seems to be the same as its own but it's a feigned habitat.

There is a method called offsite collection in which the animals and plants are collected in botanical gardens, zoological parks, etc.

Here endangered species are preserved until the subsequent breeding results in the increase of individuals under the selective circumstance and those species are eventually released into the wild.

Examples

  1. DNA Banks

  2. Aquarium

  3. Zoological parks and so on.

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Conclusion

Biodiversity is the variation of living organisms on earth. That made possible because of the fruitful evolution of millions of years by the impact of external factors and also humans. To prevent the species from extinction, the 1992 UN earth summit described biodiversity as the variability of living organisms on earth. It includes a diversity of aquatic ecosystems, ecological complexes, and so on.

From the observation, it is estimated that in-situ conservation is way better than ex-situ conservation. The most important contribution that the members of our generation must make to save biodiversity and attainable amounts of biodiversity should also be conserved.

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