Aquatic ecology and Biodiversity

Unit 12- Aquatic biodiversity and conservation

12.2.4. Principles of conservation
The ecological principles describe the assumptions needed to plan actions for conserving biodiversity
• Protection of species and species subdivisions which supports biodiversity.
• Maintaining habitat is fundamental to conserve the species.
• Represent all native ecosystem types in a system of protected areas.
• Retain large contiguous or connected areas that sustain natural ecological processes.
• Maintain or emulate natural ecological processes.
• Manage for adaptability in response to environmental change.
• Maintain viable populations of all native species in natural patterns of abundance and distribution.
• Preserve rare landscape elements, critical habitats and features and associated species.
• Minimize the introduction and spread of invasive alien species.