due to human activities and the reason for conservation of biodiversity will be discussed in details with respect to its aesthetic value‚ medicinal importance and its ecological value. The concept of biodiversity is important in building awareness‚ knowledge‚ information‚ ethics‚ and other complex mixture of agriculture‚ protected areas‚ etc. Figure 1 shows how these fit into the society together to achieve a common objective which is the conservation of biodiversity‚ sustainable use of biological
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Experts say protecting about 42 sites across Asia‚ ranging from forests to tropical grasslands‚ could be key to the survival of one of the world’s most iconic and feared wild cats‚ the tiger. Habitat loss and the overhunting of its prey and poaching have caused its numbers to drop from more than 10‚000 in the 1980s to fewer than 3‚500 today. Tiger parts are so prized in Eastern medicine that a dead one can sell for $1‚500 to $3‚500 before its eyes are sold as a cure for epilepsy and malaria‚ its
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Wildlife Conservation Wildlife is a vital part of our ecosystem. Wildlife includes all animals and other organisms. Many animals are in the danger of extinction and strongly need to be saved. Animals add to the natural beauty of the earth. Humans’ activities become a big threat to the animals. Hunting and fishing is a sport or recreation for some people. Animals get killed indiscriminately. Some people kill animals for making profits by selling their skins‚ meat etc. Poaching is done in some of
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Importance for Wildlife Conservation * Maintains ecological balance & the organisms have their unique positions in food chains‚ food webs which keep ecological balance. * Wild life contributes to the maintenance of material cycles such as carbon and nitrogen cycles. * For improvement and progress in agriculture‚ animal husbandry and fisheries the genes from wild life preserved as gene bank are utilised in breeding programmes. * Wild life provides a number of useful products like food‚ medicine
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WATERGY: A Water and Energy Conservation Model for Federal Facilities By Dr. Sharon deMonsabert‚ P.E. Associate Professor‚ Urban Systems Engineering George Mason University Fairfax‚ VA 22030-4444 Phone: 703-993-1747 Fax: 703-993-1706 Barry L. Liner Consultant - Management Practice Water Research Center (WRc inc.) 7700 Leesburg Pike‚ Suite 400 Falls Church‚ VA 22043 Phone: 703-918-9573 Fax: 703-749-7962 Presented At CONSERV’96 Orlando‚ Florida January 6‚ 1996 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The
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T. Gregory October 31‚ 2011 Writing Assignment II: Animals Have Families Too This advertisement by the World Wildlife Foundation shows a little girl that looks like a tiger cub about to be shot by a poacher. Instead of focusing on all the endangered species in the world‚ it concentrates on Tigers only. This image focuses on the ideas of tiger conservation‚ family‚ and poaching in hopes of pulling at people’s heart strings to raise money. The main way they do this is by focusing on your family
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Major Concepts of Conservational model Goal of the model is to promote adaptation and maintain wholeness using the principles of conservation Model guides the nurse to focus on the influences and responses at the organismic level Nurse accomplishes the goal of model through the conservation of energy‚ structure and personal and social integrity Adaptation Every individual has a unique range of adaptive responses The responses will vary by heredity‚ age‚ gender or challenges
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Conservation refers to the idea that "certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same"‚ despite their perceptual differences (Berk‚ 2009). In Piaget’s theory on conservation‚ children gradually acquire various conservation abilities‚ such as understanding the conservation of numbers‚ weight‚ and volume to name a few. Piaget asserts that until they successfully acquire these abilities‚ they have no real understanding that quantity remains unchanged despite perceptual changes of the objects
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conservation of natural resources conservation of natural resources‚ the wise use of the earth’s resources by humanity. The term conservation came into use in the late 19th cent. and referred to the management‚ mainly for economic reasons‚ of such valuable natural resources as timber‚ fish‚ game‚ topsoil‚ pastureland‚ and minerals‚ and also to the preservation of forests‚ wildlife‚ parkland‚ wilderness‚ and watershed areas. In recent years the science of ecology has clarified the workings of the biosphere;
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Did the Conservation Movement of the Early Twentieth Century Successfully Preserve the American Environment? T.H. Watkins argues that the movement did preserve the environment because of Gifford Pinchot’s role with the forest. Watkins states‚ “President Roosevelt would establish the first federal wildlife refuge” (158)‚ and the forest will be handed to Pinchot’s care. He became the first the nation’s first chief forester and divided land with rangers in charge of each land to make sure laws were
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