Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The value of species
- Intrinsic (belonging by nature)
A right to exist.
- Food
- ECONOMIC
- Medicines
- Clothing - fibre
- Fuel
- Leisure/recreation/tourism
- Oxygen
- ECOLOGICAL
- Pollinators
- Predators
- Decomposition
- Keystone species
- Essential for health/natural functioning of habitat
- Producers/consumers
- Strategic
- Indicator species - health, pollution, tell a story/warning.
- Flagship species, e.g. panda
- Cultural value
- Ecosystem services: importance of species,
their value to the environment as a whole.