Importance of conservation

• Biodiversity


  Variety of life, including both plants and animals, found in a habitat
• High biodiversity

  • Ecosystem is more stable and less vulnerable to change
• Why should we conserve biodiversity?
• Reasons to conserve biodiversity

  • Moral and ethical
  • It's the right thing to do
  • Everybody has different moral and ethical views
• Textile industry resources

  • Silk
  • Cotton
  • Wool
• Oil


  Used for food, soaps, and cosmetics
• Food resources


  Plants and animals
• Genetic resources


  • Finding a gene from a wild plant to induce more domestic crops to move them, grow faster, and produce painkillers
• Physiological research


  • Kangaroo pouches used to study baby development in the human womb
• Ecosystem services


  Natural processes that provide benefits to humans, such as atmospheric composition regulation and biogeochemical cycling
• Ecosystem services

  • Ladybirds used as predators for aphids, sacrificial crops used to attract pests away from main crops
• Biomimetics


  Processes where humans take inspiration from nature when designing products
• Biomimetics


  • Feathers on bird wings used to design plane wings to induce turbulence