Conserving Threatened Species
protected areas of land or water that are managed for nature conservation.
What are Conservation Reserves
The term for a storage system for genetic material of endangered species?
What is a Gene Bank
Worlds most comprehensive list of animals at risk of extinction.
What is the IUCN Red list
What does ESD stand for?
Ecologically Sustainable Development
This places greatest value on species and their natural environments
What is Ecocentrism
Reserves that are intended to conserve natural areas of national significance
What are National Parks?
Process of restoring or repairing degraded ecosystems.
Habitat restoration.
A list that protects both natural sites and building sites for cultural reasons around the world.
What is the World Heritage Listings.
ESD main principle is?
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future.
Belief that humans are the central or most significant species on the planet.
Anthropocentrism
Small patches of vegetation that remain after ares have been cleared.
What is remnant vegetation
The process of wearing down rocks by wind and water to form soil
What is erosion.
An act that aims to stop illegal trade of animals and plants (acronym)
CITES
The three areas of ESD that form the Zone of Sustainability.
Society, Economy, Environment.
Belief that biology is the driving science of the universe.
Biocentrism
What are links between isolated patches of vegetation
What is a wildlife corridor
A common way to reduce the loss of soil from ecosystems
What is revegetation
The Australian government established the EPBC act in 1999. What does EPBC mean?
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation
What is the principle that suggests we should not allow loss of biological resources?
Precautionary Principle.
Belief that humans are separate from nature and can manage nature for humanity's advantage.
Technocentrism
Term used to describe plants or animals being returned to an area.
What is translocation
The term used that indicates that a plant or animal is found only in a particular ecosystem.
What is endemic?
An area on the Mornington Peninsula that has been established as a biodiversity buffer. What is this called?
Mornington Peninsula Green Wedge.
Term used to illegally hunt wild animals for economic gain
What is poaching.
Which value bests describes indigenous cultures perspective towards the environment
Ecocentrism