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    Biodiversity and Conservation

    Dr. Md. Shafiqul Islam


    Associate Professor and Head,
    Department of Environmental Science,
    State University of Bangladesh (SUB)
    Valuing Biodiversity
    Both the intrinsic value and the anthropocentric values.
    Intrinsic Value: A thing is right when it tends to preserve it integrity,
    stability and beauty of the community. It is wrong when it tends
    to otherwise.
    Anthropocentric Value : The natural environment” harbors
    chemicals, fibers, flesh, resins, enzymes, genes and whatnot that
    we can manipulate, extract, breed purify and prime into products
    that will cure our diseases, feed our hungry and line our pockets”
    While intrinsic arguments for protection of biodiversity are
    compelling, it is ultimately arguments of human benefit that
    pragmetic conservationists find most appealing: as humans, we
    are inextricably and wholly dependent on this diversity of living
    things for survival.
    Valuing Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity, encompassing genetic diversity, species, populations,
    communities and ecosystems, and landscapes and regions, provides
    countless benefits to humans at all these scales. Some of these benefits
    include:
    • Economic benefits, both direct and indirect;
    • Aesthetic benefits;
    • Scientific and ethical knowledge;
    • Insurance against the future
    • Economic benefits :The notion that biodiversity has provided us with many
    benefits is well understood. Some of these benefits come in the form of
    goods that can be directly valued and costed because they provide
    something that can be extracted and sold. These goods include everything
    from all the domesticated agricultural crops that form the basis of the
    world's food supply, to medicines that protect and cure us to the fibres that
    make up the clothes we wear
    Value
    • Intrinsically value
    • Demand Value
    • Option Value
    Intrinsically value:
    We care about nature not as resources, ripe for
    harvest, but rather as a good in itself
    We are stewards responsible for taking good care
    of the world of life rather than owners free to
    dispose of it as we wish.
    Demand Value
    • To maximization pleasure, happiness,
    preference satisfaction and avoidance of pain,
    unhappiness or frustrations.
    Option Value
    • Additional amount a person would pay for
    some amenity over and above its current
    value
    Ecosystem services
    • Plant biomass production
    • Stability of plant biomass
    • Soil fertility
    • Water supply
    • Pollination services
    • Resisting the invasion of harmful species
    • Control of agricultural pests
    • Climate regulations
    • Carbon storage
    • Buffering the impacts of storms, cyclones etc.

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