Conservation For The People

This article from Scientific American states that current way of protecting biodiversity isn't working very well, which is just protecting biodiversity hot spots. However, since these "hot spots" don't always have a diverse animal populations, protecting them isn't working out so well. So we should try a different approach. This other approach is taking the environments that have a large impact on the human species. By doing this, we won't hurt people by moving them out of their homes or anything like that. Also, we may only need to save the species that help people. Some of these environments are forests, coral reefs, wetlands, and mangroves. By protecting all of these certain ecosystems, we can preserve biodiversity and have it also benefit us humans. And not only will we be protecting the cute and popular animals, but we will also protect the rare species. In all, this article is pretty much supporting biodiversity as anthropocentric, with all the talk of the environment only being worth saving when it actually supports mankind.