Question

A lot of people are involved with nature conservation, taking care of the plants and

animals which share the planet. Until the beginning of the 20th century, people thought

we could conserve nature by looking after individual species by putting wild animals in

zoos, or plants in botanical gardens. Now we understand that we need to conserve whole

habitats, the places where these plants and animals live.

Polar bears may be able to survive as individual animals in concrete pools in Zoos. But to

conserve the species properly they each need hundreds of square kilometers of Arctic

landscape where they can hunt in seas free from pollution and roam across snowfields

that are not disturbed by people. Nearer home, hedgehogs need a whole neighbourhood to

live in, with quiet leafy corners for hibernation, and plenty of undergrowth where they

can hunt for slugs and worms, without any danger of eating poisonous chemicals.

We can grow primroses in plant pots, but to conserve these wildflowers properly, we

need to conserve the woodlands where they grow naturally. Nature reserves are important

for providing a safe environment for wildlife, but nature conservation can take place

anywhere.

Lots of people are creating new habitats such as ponds and wildflower meadows, in

gardens and school grounds. In fact some species thrive best in special artificial habitats.

Many starlings, for instance, spend the cold winter nights roosting on the windowsills of

centrally heated office blocks in towns, and then feed all day on the grubs and worms that

live in the soil beneath school playing fields, sports pitches and parks. Most of the

wildflowers we call weeds can survive only if a farmer or a gardener cultivates the soil

and accidentally makes a new seed bed for them each year.



what is the opposite of conserve from the passage?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The opposite of conserve here may be squander, waste, destroy, misuse, ignore, and use up.

This is a natural conservation topic and we all know if we don't conserve nature then we are destroying it.