How does conservation benefit the environment?
1 Answer
May 24, 2016
In a broad sense, it helps keep life on Earth robust and able to handle extinction events.
Explanation:
Species conservation preserves organisms, but in so doing, it helps keep the Earth's genetic diversity high. High genetic diversity is essential for long-term life on Earth as periodically extinction events happen (volcanic eruptions, glaciations, asteroids) that kill off large numbers of species. Having a large "reservoir" of genetic material increases the odds that some form of life will survive after one of these extinction events.
