GEMET
General
Multilingual
Environmental
Thesaurus
biodiversity conservation
Definition

Planned management (i.e. preservation, maintenance, sustainable use, recovery, enhancement) of a natural resources or of a particular ecosystem to halt, reverse or slow-down the loss of biodiversity from impacts of exploitation, pollution etc. to ensure the future usability of the resource, resilience of communities, and ecosystem integrity.

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Scope note

Scope note is not available.

Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/15073