species protection
Preventing animal extinction
Species protection is the effort to preserve animal and plant species from extinction or decline.
It encompasses legal frameworks like endangered species acts, habitat conservation, breeding programs, and restrictions on hunting or trade: The new legislation strengthened species protection for migratory birds.
Conservation biology provides the scientific basis for species protection measures.
- poaching lawsRules criminalizing illegal hunting
- hunting banLaw forbidding animal pursuit
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- wildlife corridorsLand linking separated habitats
CITES · habitat restoration · protected habitat · critical habitat · Ramsar Convention · rewilding · seed banks · breeding program · captive breeding · habitat preservation · whales · national parks · wildlife sanctuaries · wildlife reserve · nature preserve · pandas · preserve · tigers
- environmentair pollution, ecology, clean air, biosphere, air quality
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
- environmentalismecology, conservationism, recycling bins, campaigner, environmentalism
- eco actionsrecycling, composting, tree planting, water conservation, energy saving
- marine conservationsea turtle rescue, beach cleanup, oil spill cleanup, marine rescue, shark conservation
- wildlife conservationgame warden, wildlife officer, wildlife refuges, wildlife refuge, ranger
species protectionspecies extinction
Permanent end of a lineage
habitat destruction · extermination · poaching · wildlife trafficking · overhunting
species protectionderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
resource extraction · open season · land clearing · commercial whaling · industrial development