Question

Identify any of the following guidelines that provide an effective approach to conservation of Biodiversity at Ecosystem and Landscape scales:

Select one or more:

a. managing protected areas by excluding humans from undisturbed core and buffer zones - United Nations Global Biosphere Reserves

b. building habitat corridors which connect networks of protected areas across larger landscapes - Clouded Leopard, Bhutan

c. increasing edge effects, to create a range of larger and smaller forest patch areas to sustain a greater diversity of dung beetle, army ant, and fruit eating monkey species - Ecosystem Project (MCS) Brazil

d. selective logging of old growth Redwood trees to hollow out forest density and separate individual populations of territorial endangered species - Northern Spotted Owl, Pacific Northwest

e. issue industrial mining leases and drilling permits on Federal lands in multiple states providing critical habitat to land birds, to localize damage and minimize impacts across the broader landscape - Greater Sage Grouse, Western United States

f. recruit and hire members from local populations to serve as ecosystem stewards, rangers, tour guides, conservationists and land managers, to maintain protected areas, guard threatened flora and fauna - Gorillas, Virunga And Vulcans National Parks

g. identify and preserve global 'hotspots' with high levels of biodiversity, endemism, and significant threat of imminent extinctions - Terrestrial Vertebrates, Conservation International

h. using principles of reserve design for protected park area creation, maintaining large, unfragmented, diverse habitats with 'stepping stones' to facilitate movement between mix of large and small reserves, managed regionally - Large Carnivores; Large and Small Herbivores, Serengeti plains

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