What are the ways to protect biodiversity?

The four measures to protect biological diversity are: in-situ protection, ex-situ protection, establishing gene banks, and building a legal system.

1. In-situ conservation: In order to protect biological diversity, a certain area of ??land or water body including the protected objects is divided for protection and management.

2. Ex-situ conservation: Ex-situ conservation is in different places where biodiversity is distributed, through the establishment of different forms of protection such as zoos, botanical gardens, arboretum, wildlife parks, seed banks, gene banks, aquariums, etc. Facilities to implement artificial-assisted protection of those rare species, species with ornamental value or their genes.

3. Establishing gene banks: People have begun to establish gene banks to realize their desire to preserve species. For example, a global network of gene banks could be established to protect cultivated species of crops and their extinct wild relatives. Most gene banks store seeds from major crops such as cereals, tubers and legumes.

4. Build a legal system: People must also use legal means and improve relevant legal systems to protect biological diversity. For example, strengthen the assessment and approval of the introduction of alien species and achieve unified supervision and management. Establish a fund system, ensure special state allocations, strive for donations and assistance from individuals, society and international organizations, and provide strong economic support for the development of practical work.

Basic principles for protecting biological diversity:

1. Adhere to the priority of protection and scientific utilization: effectively increase the protection of biological diversity and take effective measures to reduce the impact of economic and social activities on biological diversity. To prevent natural interference and damage, on the basis of respecting natural and scientific laws, formulate and implement a management system for the utilization of important ecosystems and breeding resources, and promote the sustainable use of biological diversity.

2. Adhere to regional policies and highlight key points: according to the biodiversity characteristics of different regions, make overall planning, rational layout, and formulate and implement biodiversity protection policies and measures according to local conditions. Focus on priority areas for biodiversity conservation, take the implementation of major conservation projects as breakthrough points, and give full play to the leading role of demonstration construction.

3. Adhere to people-oriented and improve people’s livelihood: correctly handle the relationship between biodiversity protection and development, combine biodiversity protection with regional production increase, income increase and poverty alleviation, continuously improve the production and living standards of the regional people, and Biodiversity protection should be integrated with regional environmental governance, urbanization, and new rural construction to strive to improve the living environment of the regional people.

4. Insist on the participation of all parties and the sharing of benefits: increase the intensity of publicity and education on biodiversity protection, mobilize extensively, and guide the whole society to participate in biodiversity protection. Establish a reasonable acquisition and benefit-sharing mechanism for biological genetic resources and related traditional knowledge to ensure that stakeholders share the benefits brought by biological genetic resources and traditional knowledge in a fair and equitable manner.