Conservation Priorities

Question 1

What are the 3 main costs of conservation

Answer 1

Management 
Cost to other activities (livestock losses, crop destruction, human injury)
Opportunity costs (alternative land, money, time, resources

Question 2

What are conservation’s 3 biggest conflicts

Answer 2

Farming
Extractive industries
Urban development

Question 3

what are 3 ways human-wildlife conflicts conservation

Answer 3

Wildlife may damage property/ threaten people
Humans retaliate against wildlife or clear wildlife habitats
People resits conservation

Question 4

Why are mathematical algoriths used in spatial conservation prioritization

Answer 4

works out how to maximise the representation of the desired biodiversity features efficiently under constraints of available choices

Question 5

What is the software that is used for conservation called?

Answer 5

Marxan

Question 6

What does Marxan do?

Answer 6

calculates function for a set of areas that combines biodiversity features with costs.