Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Keywords - Conservation in the UK
- NGOs
- Non-Governmental Organisations
- Ecotourism
- Tourism intended to have a
low environmental impact
- Plagioclimax
- A community of species that
does not develop to a natural
climax but is maintained by
external influences including
human activities
- Natural England
- The UK governmental
organisation with
responsibility for the
conservation of wildlife
and the landscape
- Natura 2000
- A network of protected sites in the
EU that combine the SPAs and
SACs set up under the birds and
habitat directives
- Species Recovery Programme
- UK programme to help
increase the numbers of
some endangered species
- Greenpeace
- An environmental pressure group
- FoE
- Friends of the Earth is an
environmental pressure group
- National Trust
- A UK charity that conserves historic
buildings and important landscapes
and habitats
- WWF
- World Wide Fund for Nature is
an environmental campaigning
and pressure group
- Forestry Commission
- The UK governmental forestry organisation
which manages research commercial
timber production, learning and leisure
- BAP
- Biodiversity Action Plan
- Rio Summit
- An alternative name for
the Convention on
Biological Diversity 1992
- Biodiversity
- A measure of the variety and
abundance of wildlife species
- DEFRA
- Department for
Environmental Food and
Rural Affairs
- LNRs
- Local Nature Reserves
- National Parks and Access
to the Countryside Act
- The UK law that enabled the
establishment of National Parks,
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
and many public rights of way