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• The branch of biology that deals with the effects of humans on the environment and with the conservation of biological diversity
• The scientific study of the nature and status of Earth’s biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction
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Conservation Biology
• It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on sciences, economics, and the practice of natural resource management
• Emerged in the mid 1980’s in the US, now become global science and movement
• “Science for the human survival”
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Conservation Biology and PHKA
• Conservation Biology fundamental knowledge for knowledge, action and policy of PHKA
• In the past: all PHKA staffs must join the SECM (School of Environmental and Conservation Management): – 9 month, non-degree