conservation biology

The protection and maintenance of wildlife habitat to avoid further loss or to increase biodiversity. Traditional approaches emphasize the value of native species, including individual species at particular risk. Other approaches are less sympathetic to active management (rewilding), or more sympathetic (aggressive conservation), while the need for active management is relatively clear in restoration ecology.

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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