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Biodiversity and Conservation — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYBiodiversity and Conservation3 Marks
Question
Why should we conserve biodiversity? How can we do it?

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Why should we conserve biodiversity? Why is it a moral as well as social duty to contribute towards its protection?

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Answer

  1. Biodiversity should be conserved for the following reasons:
  • The broadly utilitarian argument says that biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides.
  • The narrow utilitarian argument says that humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature and products of medicinal importance.
  • The ethical argument for conserving biodiversity relates to what we owe to millions of plant, animal and microbe species with whom we share this planet.
  1. Importance of biodiversity hotspots and sacred groves: Biodiversity hotspots are the regions of accelerated habitat loss. These can reduce the ongoing mass extinctions by almost 30%. Sacred groves are important in biodiversity conservation, as these are naturally protected by the native population without much effort. In Meghalaya, the sacred groves are the last refuges for large number of rare and threatened plants.

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