World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development
11 August 2020
The aim of the World Conservation Strategy is to achieve the three main objectives of living resource conservation:
a. to maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems (such as soil regeneration and protection, the recycling of nutrients, and the cleansing of waters), on which human survival and development depend;
b. to preserve genetic diversity (the range of genetic material found in the world's organisms), on which depend the functioning of many of the above processes and life-support systems, the breeding programmes necessary for the protection and improvement of cultivated plants, domesticated animals and microorganisms, as well as much scientific and medical advance, technical innovation, and the security of the many industries that use living resources;
c. to ensure the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems (notably fish and other wildlife, forests and grazing lands), which support millions of rural communities as well as major industries.
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) (1980). World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development. Gland, Switzerland.
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