Untitled Flashcards Set

1.Ecotourism 

The enterprises involved in promoting tourism of unusual or interesting ecological sites.

2.biodiversity

The diversity of living things found in the natural world. 

3. intrinsic value

 The value that living organisms or species have in their own right, They don’t have to be useful to have value. 

4. instrumental value 

The value that living organisms or species have in virtue of their benefit to people 

5.  Lacey Act

 Passed in 1900, it gave protection to wildlife by forbidding interstate commerce from illegally killed animals

6. genetic bank 

The concept that natural ecosystems with all their species serve as a repository of genes that may be drawn upon to improve domestic plants and animals and to develop new medicines, among other uses. 

7.  endangered species

A species whose total population is declining to relatively low levels such that if the trend continues, the species will likely become extinct. 

8.  Endangered Species Act (ESA)

The federal legislation that mandates the protection of species and their habitats which are determined to be in danger of extinction. 

9. biological wealth

The life-sustaining combination of commercial, scientific, and asthetic values imparted to a region by its biota. 

10. natural capital

The natural assets and the services that they perform. One form of the wealth of a nation is its complement of natural capital. 

11.  habitat conservation plan

Under the Endangered Species Act, a plan that may be drafted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in working with landowners to help mitigate conflicts resulting from an application of the act. 

12.  keystone species

A species whose role is essential for the survival of many other species in an ecosystem.