Conservation strategies Questionbank

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By increasing the use of chemical fertilizers

By reducing the amount of water reaching the soil

By providing nutrients from dead organic matter

By clearing the canopy to increase sunlight

Ensuring local communities receive a share of profits from research partnerships and ecotourism.

Prohibiting all international scientific research within the boundaries of national parks.

Converting the buffer zones surrounding these reserves into high-density urban industrial centers.

Relying exclusively on international aid rather than developing domestic economic incentives for conservation.

By deploying international peacekeepers to protect vulnerable forest ecosystems

By allowing the UN to revoke a country's sovereignty if they fail to meet reforestation targets

By automatically providing development funding to any country that implements tree-planting programs

Through a national reporting process that pressures governments to demonstrate progress towards land degradation neutrality

By replacing the need for traditional crop rotation

By increasing agricultural productivity without exhausting limited water supplies

By creating permanent flood zones to prevent dust storms

By allowing for large-scale commercial cattle ranching

To prioritize economic profit over environmental protection

To eventually exclude all human activity from natural environments

To allow for the unlimited extraction of natural resources

To ensure human use stays within limits that ecosystems can recover from

Compliance is likely to decrease.

Compliance is likely to increase.

Compliance is likely to remain unchanged.

Compliance will only increase if the external actors are international organizations.

True

False

Acidify

Bind

Remove

Saturate

To regulate the collection of biological samples for medical and pharmaceutical research.

To grant international pharmaceutical companies legal ownership of protected forest land.

To permit the commercial extraction of timber and mineral resources from primary rainforests.

To allow the unrestricted introduction of non-native species for pharmaceutical trials.