Rationale for wildlife conservation

• food source - current and future • building material - wood • medicine • clothing • entertainment

• developing synthetic materials and structures by mimicking designs found in nature

• bullet train • aeroplanes

• have been used to understand sensory and nervous system • they have helped understand dementia

• they have been used in fertility and embryology studies

• morphene , heroin • to treat severe pain

• aspirin • to treat pain

• wild mustard plant • common veg such as broccoli and cauliflower

• red jungle fowl • chicken

• more plant-based materials • insects • fungi

• area of the world that has a high concentration of the close relatives of the important crop species

• crop wild relative

• they are the wild ‘cousins’ of our cultivated crops

• increase disease resistance • increase hardness • increase drought resistance • increase salt tolerance

• deforestation • climate change • sea level rises • predation • droughts

• seed banks • giving areas legal protection • educating • removal of invasive species

• wild bananas from papua new guinea boost food security for all

• use of a living organism to control pests

• ground beetles • parasitic wasps

• can control population size • removes weak genes from the population

• squirrels • exploding seeds

• humming birds • bats

• wild flowers being removed • changes in agriculture techniques (nicotine based pesticides)

• loss of habitats • loss of flowering plants • diseases could be transferred by shipping of hives