Keywords - Conservation in the UK

Keywords - Conservation in the UK

1. NGOs

   • Non-Governmental Organisations

2. Ecotourism

   • Tourism intended to have a low environmental impact

3. Plagioclimax

   • A community of species that does not develop to a natural climax but is maintained by external influences including human activities

4. Natural England

   • The UK governmental organisation with responsibility for the conservation of wildlife and the landscape

5. Natura 2000

   • A network of protected sites in the EU that combine the SPAs and SACs set up under the birds and habitat directives

6. Species Recovery Programme

   • UK programme to help increase the numbers of some endangered species

7. Greenpeace

   • An environmental pressure group

8. FoE

   • Friends of the Earth is an environmental pressure group

9. National Trust

   • A UK charity that conserves historic buildings and important landscapes and habitats

10. WWF

    • World Wide Fund for Nature is an environmental campaigning and pressure group

11. Forestry Commission

    • The UK governmental forestry organisation which manages research commercial timber production, learning and leisure

12. BAP

    • Biodiversity Action Plan

13. Rio Summit

    • An alternative name for the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992

14. Biodiversity

    • A measure of the variety and abundance of wildlife species

15. DEFRA

    • Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs

16. LNRs

    • Local Nature Reserves

17. National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act

    • The UK law that enabled the establishment of National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and many public rights of way