What is biodiversity conservation?

Question

What is biodiversity conservation?

Answer 1

This is the idea that it is important to make sure there is a variety of biota (both animal and plant) within any environment, ecosystem or biome or community, because such diversity is crucial to the survival and perpetuation of the species in that environment.  The goal is to maximize the number of different species.

It's actually a good idea.  We don't know yet all of the ways in which different species interact, either predator/prey, communalism, parasitism, etc.  Any ecosystem is in a delicate balance, however, and can be easily disrupted (and often is messed up by human interference).  If we can maintain diversity in a system, perhaps we can help to save all the species, instead of just focusing on one species and finding out later that it can't survive without other species.  Further, having more species is like hedging your bets - if one species dies out, there are others that may be able to take its place.

Answer 2

Conserving the biodiversity, or the complex variation of living organisms and their complex interactions, within a ecosystem.