Conservation and Farming

• What are examples of modern farming practices?

  Monoculture, cereal crops grown, fields made bigger, and pesticides used.
• What have conservationists done to maintain biodiversity?

  Rewilded areas by removing all human interference, and promote organic farming.
• What do farmers do to graze the land?

  Deliberately fertilise and drain the land and sow seeds.
• What happens as a result of grazing by farmers?

  Other plant species are outcompeted or the changes to the land ruin their habitat causing low species richness.
• Why do people favour organic farms?


  The food produced in free from harmful chemicals.
• Why does the reduction of pesticides do?

  Benefits biodiversity.
• What does extensive farming and use of pesticides decline?


  The number of bumblebees.
• What farming practices are expensive, labour and time intensive?


  Ones that maintain or increase biodiversity.
• What can farming practices also do?

  Reduce the yield of crops and livestock.
• How does reducing the use of pesticides for maintaining biodiversity reduce the yield of crops?


  The number of pest species that destroy crops increases.