Taking specific steps towards sustaining biodiversity is an acknowledged twin endeavour along with carbon sequestration in programmes to address climate change. Sustaining biodiversity means preventing extinctions and recovering biomass of wild animals as well as their plant foods. Take a look at this table showing the impacts of nine potential interventions on seven key aspects of endangered wildlife species recovery. When we talk about nutrition, it is usually in a human
Throughout history, human-wildlife conflict has posed problems to farmers. Until the late 20th century, this was normally addressed by killing wildlife. Whether one follows the 1980 World Conservation Strategy approach that regards wildlife as just a means to help support human economic well-being, or prefers a more philosophical and ethical rationale, wildlife, especially threatened species, now needs urgent attention. Large wild animals have now been squeezed into clusters