preserve noun (ACTIVITY) an activity that only a particular group of people can do: Sport used to be a male preserve. Owning racehorses is the preserve of the rich.

to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens. to keep safe from harm or injury; protect or spare. to keep up; maintain: to preserve historical monuments. to keep possession of; retain: to preserve one’s composure.

1 : to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction : protect. 2a : to keep alive, intact, or free from decay. b : maintain. 3a : to keep or save from decomposition. b : to can, pickle, or similarly prepare for future use.

verb (used with object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

1. to keep up; maintain: to preserve historical monuments.
2. to keep possession of; retain: to preserve one’s composure.
3. to prepare (food or any perishable substance) so as to resist decomposition or fermentation.
4. to prepare (fruit, vegetables, etc.)

The verb preserve describes keeping something as it is now, without a decline in quality. It can also refer to keeping something safe from harm, as in “The group worked hard to preserve the regional ecosystem.” When you preserve food, such as fruit, you keep it from rotting.

As verbs the difference between reserve and preserve is that reserve is to keep back; to retain while preserve is to protect; to keep from harm or injury.

One main reason why we have nature reserves is to protect our biodiversity- the degree of variation of life. A sufficient biodiversity is required to keep our ecosystem in natural balance. A healthy biodiversity is of extreme importance to humanity as it provides a number of natural services for everyone.

Broadly speaking, wildlife preserves are areas of importance for wildlife, flora and fauna, or features of geological or other special interest, which are reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study and research.

Areas allocated to preserve and protect certain animals and plants, or both. They differ from national park, which are largely a place for public recreation, because they are provided exclusively to protect species for their own sake.

Cons

• Humans interfere with the wildlife.
• Garbage is left behind, plant life is destroyed and reserves land is reduced to fit to human needs.
• Roads and trails are built.
• Take away from the habitats of the organisms.

Wonders of the World – The Earth’s 10 Best Nature Reserves

• #1 Yellowstone National Park. This huge, almost 3,500 sq.
• #2 Banff, Canada.
• #3 Galapagos Islands.
• #4 Bialowieza National Park.
• #5 Atsinanana, Madagascar.
• #6 Northeast Greenland National Park.
• #7 Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Park.
• #8 Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

A nature reserve could be public land or privately owned. A National Park is designated by the government and can never be privately owned.

National Park: Activities like grazing, hunting, forestry or cultivation etc. are strictly prohibited. No human activity is permitted inside the national park except for the ones permitted by the Chief Wildlife Warden of the state.

Nearly all of our nature reserves are free to enter and nearly all have public access to parts of the site.

National Nature Reserves may be established and declared by the statutory nature conservation agencies and managed by them or an approved body. Local authorities may also establish nature reserves and declare them Local Nature Reserves, provided the relevant statutory nature conservation agency approves.

Developers can build on nature reserves – if they ‘offset’ the damage elsewhere, says Government review. Builders can bulldoze some of the country’s most beautiful areas – as long as they make up for the damage elsewhere, a Government review has suggested.

A local nature reserve is a statutory designation made under Section 21 – “Establishment of nature reserves by local authorities” – of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities (district, borough or unitary councils) in England, Scotland and Wales.

To qualify for LNR status, a site must be of importance for wildlife, geology, education or public enjoyment. Some are also nationally important Sites of Special Scientific Interest. LNRs must be controlled by the local authority through ownership, lease or agreement with the owner.

Successful reserves incorporate important ecological and social factors into their design. Such factors include the natural range of predators. When a reserve is too small, carnivores have increased contact with humans, resulting in higher mortality rates for the carnivore. Also certain species are area sensitive.

Local authorities can create local nature reserves ( LNRs ). Town and parish councils can create LNRs if the district council has given them the power to do this. The local authority must control the LNR land – either through ownership, a lease or an agreement with the owner.

Nature reserves and wildlife sites, like all open spaces, require management -everything from litter clearance, keeping the paths open and cutting the grass through to specialist ecological work such as coppicing and meadow management.

Local Wildlife Sites (LWS) Local Wildlife Sites are sites with ‘substantive nature conservation value’. They are defined areas, identified and selected for their nature conservation value, based on important, distinctive and threatened habitats and species with a national, region.

NNRs are declared by the statutory country conservation agencies under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. In Northern Ireland, Nature Reserves are designated under the Amenity Lands Act (Northern Ireland) 1965.

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is a formal conservation designation. Usually, it describes an area that’s of particular interest to science due to the rare species of fauna or flora it contains – or even important geological or physiological features that may lie in its boundaries.

How are SSSIs protected? If you are owner or occupier of an SSSI, it an offence to carry out any activity that may likely damage the SSSI without consent from the relevant conservation agency. The law requires that you inform the conservation agency of any change in ownership or occupancy.

Development affecting Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and National Nature Reserves (NNRs) for planning permission. This usually also applies to developments that fall within a defined area around a SSSI. planning permission is unlikely to be granted for many developments that damage SSSIs.

Public bodies such as local authorities, statutory undertakers and public authorities own about 20% of land designated as SSSIs. Public bodies are defined as follows: Any statutory undertaker (as defined in section 262(1), (3) and (6) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990).

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. The acronym “SSSI” is often pronounced “triple-S I”.

SSSIs are areas of conservation, consisting of protected areas, recognised for their biological or geological significance. In Northern Ireland an SSSI is called an area of special scientific interest (ASSI).