6.3.2 Sustainability

• Conservation


  Maintains biodiversity of a habitat by allowing sustainable use of the resources there
• Preservation


  Maintains biodiversity of a habitat by minimising human impact
• Economic reasons to conserve and preserve

  Food source, natural pest control, boosts tourism
• Social reasons to conserve and preserve

  many organisms can be used in medicine, aesthetics
• Ethical reasons to conserve and preserve

  Responsibility to maintain habitats for future generations
• Sustainability


  Using resources in a way that also maintains them for future generations
• Timber production

  • clear felling
  • strip felling
  • selective felling
  • coppicing
  • pollarding
• Fishing

  • fishing quotas
  • mesh size of nets
  • licensing
• Regulation of fishing

  • ICCAT - responsible for conservation of tuna (and like species) in the Atlantic Ocean (and adjacent seas)
  • CFP (EU) - fishing quotas on numbers of certain fish allowed to be caught in a particular area
  • NAFO - intergovernmental organisation that provides scientific advice and management of fisheries in the north western part of the Atlantic ocean
• Aims of sustainability

  • preserve the environment
  • ensure resources are available to future generations
  • allow humans in society to live comfortably
  • enable less economically developed countries to develop by using their natural resources
  • create a more even balance in the consumption of these resources
• Reclamation


  Restoration of ecosystems that have been destroyed or damaged
• Dynamic conservation

  Maintaining biodiversity by adapting conservation measures to changing environmental and social factors