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Keywords - Conservation in the UK
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A Levels Environmental Studies (AS LEVEL Unit 1 - The Living Environment) Mind Map on Keywords - Conservation in the UK, created by rache11ouise on 29/05/2014.
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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
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