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Mind Map by asoledad96, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by asoledad96
over 11 years ago
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Biodiversity
- Maintaining Biodiversity
- Economic reasons to keep maintaining biodiversity
- tourism
- medicine
- food/agriculture
- raw materials
- future uses
- maintain genetic diversity
- biological controls
- tourism
- helps maintain stability
- all organisms interact in many ways, and if one species disappears this can affect whole community
- all organisms interact in many ways, and if one species disappears this can affect whole community
- Economic reasons to keep maintaining biodiversity
- Endangered species
- Reasons
- Deforestation
- loss of habitats
- loss of habitats
- Hunting
- Profit
- animals killed for their tusks/fur
- animals killed for their tusks/fur
- increased no. of predators
- Deforestation
- Reasons
- The Scimitar-horned Oryx
- in semi-deserts in northern Africa
- hunted for meat and skin
- hunting increased in 1950s and 1960s
- hunting increased in 1950s and 1960s
- few oryx transported to zoos around the world
- Captive breeding programme
- each zoo tried to breed and build up a herd
- care taken to not breed closely related animals together
- maintain genetic diversity
- maintain genetic diversity
- each zoo tried to breed and build up a herd
- provide safe habitat for oryxes so that they could eventually return to wild
- locals encouraged to take part in protection
- some employed to look after reserves
- some employed to look after reserves
- 2000, population had grown to more than 120
- in semi-deserts in northern Africa
- Protection of endangered species
- protected ares
- national parks
- reserves
- national parks
- captive breeding
- security
- artificial insamination IVF
- education awareness
- campaigns
- campaigns
- laws
- ban hunting/poaching
- zoo's
- seed banks
- protected ares
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