What is Conservation? By: Allison Mayfield
Conservation is the protection of all Earth’s resources including air, minerals, plants, soil, water, and wildlife. It is taking care of these necessary resources that give conservation meaning. Conservation also involves maintaining the biodiversity of life. If the biodiversity of an ecosystem is poor then more species will become extinct. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, a poor biodiversity increases the rate of extinction in an ecosystem.
Another term that is used often with conservation is preservation. Although both terms have similar goals they differ in how their goals are met. While conservation focuses on the sustainable use of nature by humans, preservation focuses on protecting nature from humans.
Conservation is not an easy thing to implement into every household, but by making small personal changes to our lifestyle we could all contribute to the health of our planet.
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Preservation is, I feel a difficult task, as nature truly does need to be protected from humans. Nature has and is being destroyed by humans in various ways, whether it be logging trees, polluting the air, throwing trash out in animal habitats. Preservation of what we have should be a top priority instead of seeing how we can continue to destroy the future world for generations to come.
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