- PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL SPECIES:
Individual species can be saved from extinction by preserving their habitat and the ecosystem on which they depend.
This also includes the enforcement of laws against hunting and poaching of rare species.
For some species (like giant pandas), this also includes maintaining a healthy population of individuals in zoos.
Individual species, especially "capstone species", are key to the maintenance of many ecosystems and thus many other species.
- PROTECTING HABITATS AND ECOSYSTEMS:
Conservation of natural habitat is the most important thing we can do to protect biodiversity.
Habitats are threatened by expanding human population, so we must limit overpopulation.
Habitats are being destroyed in order to create or expand agricultural land, so we need to find ways to grow crops using less land.
We also need to limit mining operations in sensitive habitats.
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