Reasons of biodiversity conservation :-

Reasons of conserving biodiversity is grouped into three categories

1. Narrowly utilitarian
2. Broadly utilitarian
3. Ethical.

Narrowly utilitarian –

The humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature such as cereals,pulses,fruits,firewood,fiber, construction material,industrial products like tannins, lubricants, dyes, resins, and perfumes.

Broadly utilitarian –

• Biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services nature provides.
• Amazon forest is estimated to produce, through photosynthesis,20 per cent of the total oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere
• Bees, bumblebees, birds and bats pollinate the flowers without plants cannot give us fruits or seeds.
• Aesthetic pleasures like bird watching, spring flowers in full bloom, walking through the thick forest ,waking up to a bulbul’s song’s etc are some other benefits of ecosystem.

Ethical reasons :-

There are thousands of plants, animals and microbes on this earth which are not useless. Every one has intrinsic value even if it is not of any economic value to us.

It is, therefore, our moral duty to ensure well-being of all the living creatures for the utillization of future generations.

Conservation of biodiversity :-

Biodiversity can be conserved by in situ and Ex situ conservation.

• The process of protecting biodiversity at all levels by conserving and protecting the whole ecosystem is called in situ conservation.
• The process in which endangered and threatened animals are saved by taking urgent measures is called ex situ conservation.