Maintaining Ecosystems and Biodiversity

• What are breeding programmes?

  Programmes that prevent endangered species from becoming extinct. Animals are bred in captivity and are sometimes released into the wild to boost or re-establish a population
• What rare habitats are protected under protection programmes?

  • Mangroves
  • Heathland
  • Coral reefs
• What do programmes try to re-introduce around the edge of farmland?

  • Hedgerows
  • Field margins
  • Wild flowers
  • Grasses
• Does the government limit the amount of carbon dioxide that businesses can produce?

  Yes
• What are people encouraged to do instead of putting waste into landfill?

  Recycle
• What does the government sometimes pay farmers to reintroduce hedgerows to their land?

  Subsidy
• Why are biodiversity programmes challenged?

  • Cost
  • Local people's livelihood
  • Food security
  • Development