Biodiversity Leak
03.03.2025
Biodiversity Leak
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For Prelims: About Biodiversity Leak, Measures to mitigate biodiversity leakage |
Why in the news?
Recently, a study published in Science journal highlighted biodiversity leakages happening across the globe.
About Biodiversity Leak:
- Biodiversity Leakage is a phenomenon where the displacement of nature-damaging human activities is caused by protecting or restoring areas of land.
- In this process conservation policies in one region inadvertently drive environmental degradation in another region.
- It occurs when restrictions on agricultural production in conservation areas lead to increased demand for imports from other regions, often rich in biodiversity.
- Biodiversity leakage is undermining global efforts to halt biodiversity loss.
- There are concerns that large-scale conservation initiatives in regions like Europe and China are causing production shortfalls for agricultural commodities.
Measures to mitigate biodiversity leakage:
- Tracking changes in food or wood production within intervention areas as part of routine programme monitoring.
- Scrutinising projects that report near-zero losses in production to distinguish those with effective leakage mitigation from those with little or no conservation impact.
- Including explicit consideration of both local and long-range leakage in national and international conservation policies.
- Reducing demand for high-leakage goods and improving efficiencies in line with production decreases.
- Targeting conservation efforts in areas where biodiversity restoration will cause minimal displacement of production.
- Increasing yields within or near conservation project areas to offset losses.
Source: Down to earth
Biodiversity Leakage, recently in news, is a:
A.process where conservation policies in one region inadvertently drive environmental degradation in another region.
B.phenomenon of increase in biodiversity due to unexpected rain in an area
C.process of loosing species due to nuclear contamination
D.a process of loss of predatory animals due to dietary changes
Answer A