Question

Is biosphere reserve in situ Conservation?

Answer 1

Biosphere reserves:

1. Biosphere reserves: "Learning sites for sustainable development" are biosphere reserves.
2. In addition to conflict resolution and biodiversity management, they serve as testing grounds for multidisciplinary methods to understand and control changes and interactions between social and ecological systems.
3. Bio-diversity-rich regions are protected by the law to prevent exploitation. This diversity has endangered and endemic species.
4. The biosphere reserve the whole ecosystem protected with flora and fauna and its natural habitat.
5. Biosphere reserves include marine, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems.
6. Each site promotes biodiversity with sustainable use.
7. The biosphere involves local communities and is managed by those communities.
8. Biospheres conservation is managed by UNESCO. There are 18 biosphere reserves present in India.
9. For example, Nanda Devi(Uttarakhand), Gulf of Mannar(Tamil Nadu), etc.

In situ conservation:

1. In situ conservation refers to maintaining and repopulating healthy populations of species in their natural habitats, as well as, in the case of domesticated or cultivated species, in the environments where they have evolved their distinctive characteristics.
2. It also refers to the conservation of ecosystems and natural habitats.
3. Thus, the biosphere reserve is in situ conservation.