context of raising sea levels; one of the outcomes of climate change: the hybrid outgrows its parental types in biomass formation, including prop root production. Mangrove biodiversity such as this present candidate species for coastal protection at sites where rapid, vigorous growth is needed. The issue of biodiversity is never simple. There are those who look upon single species stands as undesirable. Such observers may decry a coastal protection or eco-repair site using one mangrove species, such as the vigorous Rhizophora hybrid. But as Maxwell contends in his perspectives on mangrove biodiversity paper, this issue is far from simple. Even a single species mangrove ecosystem as exists with Avicennia marina in New Zealand or Kandelia candel in Japan, mangroves provide habitat biodiversity for mangy non-mangrove species. From this habitat diversity flows ecological opportunity for a rich animal biodiversity. Thus low mangrove tree diversity is merely the beginning of the full story; in time the developing ecosystem can mature to offer an impressive range of ‘goods and services’. As indicated above within the Baba et al. paper, this dimension of habitat biodiversity is an essential part of a holistic philosophy of biodiversity. Nirunrut Pomoim et al. used an innovative maximum entropy (MaxEnt) model to forecast the expected and potential distribution of the commercially valued hydrophyte, the Water Onion (Crinum thaianum) in Thailand. They clearly demonstrated that the conservation status of this much desired endemic species was close to that of critically endangered. The most important abiotic factors favouring this sediment-loving aquatic species were annual precipitation and waterlogged, fresh water sediment. Sadly, excessive dredging – the core negative factor in Crinum thaianum’s demise – was contributing to a conservation threshold challenge where propagation by ecologically sound farming must urgently replace water onion collection from its vanishing natural habitats. Amita Kanaujia provides a colourful, illustrated case study of active, down to earth, positive whole community mass awareness biodiversity building in India’s Uttar Pradesh province. Biodiversity conservation was presented as happy activity in which young people of all ages and educational stages contribute their active conservation to adults. In short, the classroom moved out to embrace the community. The need for science to get directly involved with community conservation action, rather than retain distance from society was evident throughout Amita Kanaujia’s case study. Such an approach gave new realism and life to such ‘Green Calendar” events as World Sparrow Day, Vulture Awareness Day and Biodiversity Festivals. The account of a Nature (‘Prakriti’ in Hindi) bus and its 17,000 km journey of biodiversity promotion is inspirational. The bus drove home its mobile message: conservation on wheels. Wande Gongba takes us to the Tibetan Plateau and reports how Buddhist people of the Bazhu Village on the edge of the diverse yet fragile biodiversity hot spot are working to sustain the ecosystems which underpin their life style. Despite the sometimes negative attractions of globalization and its demands for exotic precious plants like the Chinese yew (Taxus sp.) and market driven secularization and materialism, the Bazhu community are showing signs of resisting these outside influences. As was the case with some other studies reported in this Conference book, such as Noparat Bamroongrugsa in southern Thailand, finding how to generate a money incentive within the ecological activity greatly enhances success in biodiversity wise use. The southern Thai model advocated a ‘Bio-rights’ model 348 Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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