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Conservatio n – Save The Earth Contents 1. Wildlife Management 2. Case-Study 01 3. Habitat Conservation 4. Case Study 02
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Wildlife Management & Habitat Conservation

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Page 1: Wildlife Management & Habitat Conservation

Conservation – Save The Earth

Contents

1. Wildlife Management2. Case-Study 013. Habitat Conservation4. Case Study 02

Page 2: Wildlife Management & Habitat Conservation

General Requirements for Conservation

Public participationPublic must realise importance of conservation and actively cooperate with laws and regulations of conservation. Public awarenessPublic should understand concepts of conservation so as to be able to understand and to follow the correct methods to conserve. EducationSpecialists and environmentalists must be taught sufficiently and thoroughly in order not to harm the animals and plants, interact with them correctly. Public should also be taught about the roles they can play in conservation. CoordinationThe three levels in conservation are local, national and international measures. In order to conserve, different countries must work together to create suitable protection for various types of organisms, preserve habitats and also, save resources.

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Wildlife Management Introduction Protecting wildlife through balancing wildlife needs with human

needs. Preventing current species from going extinct through the use of

different fields such as science and technology while still letting the animals live in the same or similar living environments as their native ones.

Requires expert specialists and environmentalists to analyse and protect the animals.

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Types of Wildlife Management• Custodial management - Taking animals into custody to places such as ecological parks or

sanctuaries and provide them with essential needs (food, water, etc.) to prevent their population from dwindling.

• Manipulative management- Altering an animals’ living environment. Adding food supplies to

the animal’s habitat, removing predators, vaccinating the animals to prevent diseases are all part of this.

Endangered Animals under Wildlife Management

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Case-Study: Black Rhinos

• Greatest threats to it include poachers who hunt their horns, which has medicinal and even cultural usage and is very expensive, for money.

Background Information• Black rhinos are near extinct species with a current small

population of only around 3500. In the 1960s, there were still about 100,000 black rhinos but due to some factors, it soon became critically endangered.

• Mating takes a very long time. Pregnancy also takes up to 15 months. Hence, the decreasing species.

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Case-Study: Black RhinosConservation Action• Custodial management – translocate rhinos to safe sanctuaries,

preventing poachers from being to hunt down the black rhinos for their horns.

• Coordination – efforts placed internationally to prevent horn trading by placing harsher penalties.

Custodial Protection

• Education – public taught and persuaded not to exploit black rhinos’ horn for medicinal or cultural purposes.

• Public participation – local communities utilise black rhinos as a form of tourism , benefiting by earning money from it and thus, are provided with an incentive to protect black rhinos.

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Habitat Conservation Introduction Habitat is the type of environment where certain types of

organisms resides in. Almost anything can be a habitat. Some organisms are only indigenous to a type of habitat

and when destroyed, it will lead to the organisms dying as well.

More than 80% of animals and plants extinction comes from habitat destruction.

Conservation practices must be placed in order to prevent such things from occurring.

Even a fallen leaf contains hundreds

to thousands of organisms

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Main Factors of Habitat Destruction

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SolutionsWith the loss of habitats comes extinction of plants and animals and imbalance of the ecosystem. If the global ecosystem collapsed, we will be seriously affected as well and thus, we have a duty to prevent it, or rather, to conserve and protect it.

Land reserves – habitats where many critically endangered plants or animals reside are banned from being deforested. Activities which cause pollution are also kept a certain distance away from such areas. Rule breakers are subjected to heavy fines and severe punishments.

Land use and development regulation – due to overpopulation, forests are deforested to make way for urbanisation. Again, habitats where endangered species dwell in are protected from such.

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Solutions Zone identification – an international level solution which

identifies all the habitats with endangered species before taking action to protect them by disallowing any harmful activities there.

Decrease rates of global warming – climate change deals serious damage to habitats. Although near impossible to stop global warming altogether, everyone can take action to lighten it significantly.

Zone identification

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Case-Study: Virgin River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan

Background Information• The Virgin River houses diverse

wildlife species, including endangered ones.

• Rapid population growth created a need for housing development.

• Habitat conservation must be utilised to save the endangered animals and plants.

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Case-Study: Virgin River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan

Conservation Action• Local zone identification – the people in-charge of this project

there used technology, primarily a computer program to detect endangered species at different part of the Virgin River Watershed. This allowed development in areas where the habitats of those species would not be affected.

• Public awareness and education – locals were taught about how agricultural affected the surrounding land and soil (pollution, contamination) and allow them to understand it will harm the endangered species there.

• Public participation – locals agreed to move their agricultural after being provided with some incentives and knowledge about conservation.