Protecting Biodiversity 11.

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Essential Questions

• What are the methods used to conserve biodiversity?

• What are the two techniques used to restore biodiversity?

Key Words

•Endemic
•Bioremediation
•Biological augmentation
Protected Areas In the UAE p.345

What is the UAE government doing in helping

protecting biodiversity?

?
1. Nature Reserves
A nature reserve is an area of land that is protected in order to keep
safe the animals and plants that live there, often because they are rare.

Do you know any nature reserves in the UAE?

Which species has the greatest population?
Which species has the least population?
Protected Areas Internationally
What is being done to help protect biodiversity internationally?

?
CITES

1. CITES (the Convention on International Trade in

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

2. An international agreement between governments.

Its aim is to ensure that international trade in
specimens of wild animals and plants does not
threaten their survival.
Biodiversity hot spots
What are hot spots??

• Characterized by endemic species—species that are only found in that

specific geographic area

• At least 1500 species of vascular plants that are endemic

• Region must have at least 70% of its original habitat
Vocabulary review

What are species called that are found in

only one geographic location?
…………………………………….
Activity: Visualizing biodiversity spots(p.346 Fig 19) Complete the table:

Endemic Species Location

Giant panda
Arabian oryx
Maned wolf
Wooly monkey
orchid
Homework
Research on 3 protected areas in the UAE and answer the following:

Name:
Location:
Year established:
Species:

Bring some pics!

Activity: Place the given advantages/disadvantages of corridors in the correct column
p. 347

Advantage Disadvantage
Wider variety of in larger habitat

Disease can also easily pass

Increases edge effect

Wider variety of genetic variation

Concept Check
Which is an advantage a habitat corridor?

A. Corridors increase the edge effect in the area.

B. Diseases are passed easily from one area to another.
C. Parasites are passed easily from one area to another.
D. Members of species can move safely from one area to another
Restoring ecosystems
What happens when biodiversity is destroyed in such a
way that it can’t provide abiotic and biotic factors to
support a healthy ecosystem??
 1. Bioremediation
Bioremediation is the use of living organisms, such as prokaryotes,
fungi, or plants, to detoxify a polluted area.
Concept Check
Which term is a method that is used to restore biodiversity by
detoxifying a polluted area?

A. biological augmentation
B. renewable resource
C. bioremediation
D. sustainable use
What eats
what?
2. Biological augmentation
Activity p.349 Question 3

Choose a human-caused disaster from

Figure 21. Discuss the methods that could be
used to restore biodiversity
 Splat!
ecosystem Ecosystem diversity

biodiversity endemic

Genetic diversity Invasive species bioremediation

Biological
Species diversity augmentation
natural resources
extinction
Habitat fragmentation