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Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas of land including marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens that are covered by water seasonally or permanently due to a variety of threats from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. Some examples of these hazards include habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.
Natural habitats can provide Ecosystem services to humans, which are "any positive benefit that wildlife or ecosystems provide to people." [10] The natural environment is a source for a wide range of resources that can be exploited for economic profit, for example timber is harvested from forests and clean water is obtained from natural streams.
To address these issues, there have been both national and international governmental efforts to preserve Earth's wildlife. Prominent conservation agreements include the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
As part of his Florida book tour, Benjamin Dimmitt will be at Midtown Reader for a talk with Susan Cerulean on Chassahowitzka Refuge.
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The 2002 figures of 10.1% of terrestrial area and 64,615,554 ha of protected marine area [48] were found to poorly represent about half of Australia's 85 bioregions. [ 49 ] Environmental protection in Australia could be seen as starting with the formation of the first national park, Royal National Park , in 1879. [ 50 ]
Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic (1949) tries to avoid this type of instrumentalism by proposing a more holistic approach to the relationship between humans and their 'biotic community', [21] so to create a 'limit' based on the maxim that "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community; it is ...