Conservation of biodiversity

Bangladesh has given top priority for conservation of biodiversity but the way of implementing it is very complex and difficult, because the forest resource which is the... 

While the ICBG project has as one of its primary objectives the conservation of biodiversity, it is important to ensure that the bioprospecting activities themselves do not threaten the environment. Thus, only flowering plants which were known not to be endangered were collected, and plant collectors only collected plants of which there were a sufficient number present. 

As a result, a number of scientific meetings and international organisations made important, ground-breaking proclamations relating to the conservation of biodiversity and the ethical considerations for compensation for access to genetic materials and traditional knowledge.7 These included ... 

Redford, K. H., and A.M. Stearman. 1993. Forest-dwelling native Amazonians and the conservation of biodiversity interests in common or in collision " Conservation Biology 7 248-255. 

So what role can biotechnology play in meeting the challenges associated with the conservation of biodiversity How are the current levels of development in the adoption and application of biotechnology in the different countries able to deal with the challenges What are the options for enhancing the role of biotechnology in the conservation of biodiversity This paper discusses these and other related issues. 

Biotechnology has the potential to facilitate the conservation of biodiversity, but such potential needs to be exploited within appropriate policy and institutional regimes. The threat to biodiversity is manifest in Africa given the modernization and the demands for urbanization and industrialization. In recent years, invasive alien species have also become a problem in African countries. Given that most African countries have developed their national biodiversity strategies, there is a need for these countries to implement these strategies and to empower institutions to carry out their fimctions effectively. 

Land is a finite and valuable resource. Identifying and dealing with contaminated land is important in order to support increased quality of life for communities and conservation of biodiversity. 

Organic agriculture should develop standards for high-value agroforestry production systems such as wooded pastures in the Alps or Dehesas forests in Spain, as these would significantly aid the conservation of biodiversity in these priority ecoregions. 

These published studies have recognised wool and meat as the co-products for sheep production systems of interest. However, sheep systems in some regions also provide milk with high economic value for human food. It is also recognised that sheep can provide other functions that can potentially be accounted for, thereby reducing the environmental impacts allocated to wool. For example, RipoU-Bosch et al. (2013) studied sheep systems in Spain and noted that the benefits of sheep to ecosystem services (e.g. conservation of biodiversity and landscapes) were important in extensive mid-high altitude natural/seminatural areas and allocated up to one-half of total GHG emissions to these ecosystem services based on an economic approach. 

Abstract The most important aspect of any feedstock for industrial-scale production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is market stability. One would expect the feedstock to be sustainable in terms of supply, cost and quahty. In addition, recently, there is also growing concerns over the use of food-grade feedstock for making nonedible products such as fuel and material. Therefore, the selection of a feedstock for PHA production must take into consideration the effect on global food supply. This chapter presents the current scenario of the palm oil industry along with issues such as land management and conservation of biodiversity. In order to ensure the sustainability of PHA production from palm oil, several strategies are proposed. 

HERRAEZ M p (2009b) Cryobanking as tool for conservation of biodiversity Effect of brown trout sperm cryopreservation on the male genetic potential. Therio-genology, 71, 594-604. 

Development of mining and processing technologies compatible with environmental protection and conservation of biodiversity. 

The Brazilian Amazon thus seems to be the appropriate place to examine the propects for making the conservation of biodiversity attractive to the societies... 

Seedlings. The ecology of seeds and seedlings in tropical forests has gained importance in the understanding of forest structure, and in the management and conservation of biodiversity (60-62). 

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