Maintaining balance of nature

Maintaining ecological balance
Protecting ecological balance

Description

Maintaining balance of nature involves actively managing ecosystems to preserve biodiversity, regulate species populations, and sustain natural cycles. This strategy addresses problems such as habitat loss, invasive species, and resource depletion by implementing conservation measures, habitat restoration, and sustainable resource use. Its practical intent is to prevent ecological imbalances that threaten environmental stability and human well-being, ensuring that natural systems continue to provide essential services and resilience against environmental disruptions.

Context

The self-maintaining, self-renewing dynamic of nature as a system, including the life cycles constituted by the synthesis, use, and degradation of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulphur etc. The 'balance' sustains the qualitative and quantitative needs of the sub-systems: the salt seas and fresh-water bodies, the forests, the soil, and the ecological relationships between the species. Man is the upsetter of the balance, engaged in this role for long centuries, but with ever increasing destabilizing power.

The process of evolution means that the pool of living diversity is dynamic: it increases when new genetic variation is produced, a new species is created or a novel ecosystem formed; it decreases when the genetic variation within a species decreases, a species becomes extinct or an ecosystem complex is lost. The concept emphasises the interrelated nature of the living world and its processes.