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Denmark hopes the bison will help the island's biodiversity by conserving meadows, as they like to eat tree bark.
The environment and natural resources secretary, Ramon Paje, welcomed the Guinness announcement and the growing attention being given to the crocodile, saying it would help promote the biodiversity of the area and the need to protect it.
If the closures help preserve the biodiversity of the reef, Smith adds, then society might judge the compensation paid to the fishing industry to be money well spent.
The primary objective of this survey was to help document the biodiversity of select taxa on Saba Bank using rapid assessment techniques.
This question has particular applied relevance to the current tropical conservation research agenda as it has recently been argued that agricultural abandonment and subsequent recovery of secondary forests on degraded land could help offset the biodiversity lost from the clearance of old-growth tropical forests [22].
Cheshire, who chaired the Ecosystem Markets Task Force, believes that a progressive response to the continuing degradation of ecosystems and loss of biodiversity could help the UK become a global leader in measuring natural capital.
The proper management of this environment can result in permanent human occupation providing raw material to the industry and helping in the biodiversity preservation [7].
Biodiversity helps the soil to cope with future threats from pollution and climate change, and is a "pool from which future novel applications and products can be derived", notes the report.
When farmers are careful and manage resources sustainably, they can help preserve biodiversity and the environment.
