Conservation is to retain the mass of organisms that themselves maintain the ecosystems of the biosphere. With the rate of develpment of humanity consuming as a custom and habit as an alarming rate of natural destruction, one is left advocating for the survival of these said ecosystems against the mechanisms of progress.
We rely on ecosystems to provide O2 and to consume CO2 to lessen the dawning of the global warming crisis. The communities of organisms are lessening due to the progress and developments of human survival provision and excess. Humans are dependent on preservation and conservation to aid their existence in the present decomposition complex, exampled as extinction and clear cutting, which could result in massive loss and decimation that could destroy the existence and survival of humanity, were humans not to preserve.
The length of life of some species is far beyond that of a human extended to 100 years due to the onset of medication invention and discovery. To respect one's elders, with intention to preserve the first forms of life as the means of protecting their ecosystems, is to provide one with a means to observe with an understanding of the ancient species and another benefit, to provide humanity, and its investigations into life and its compositions, a means to discovering details of the ancient world thorough ethical experimentation that could lead to human survival and furthermore, human adaptation or cure.
To realize that as humans there were at one point in history a dependece upon the ancient species, it is due to the symbiosis (or living together) of this realationship that humans exsit today. To have found alternate modes of dependence in the human developments, into modes of control over nature such as farming, one would be lead to believe that humans protect another species as a function or a use in human dependecy as heterotrophs, however reject that which was the means to survival when discovery of greater control and ease was made or encountered.
Respect for the journey that lead humanity to its place in space and time would be to avocate for the conservation of ancient species, with appreciation for the journey of life, that has existed for the majority of time on Earth without involvement of human interaction.
Origins of Humanity
The fern is a plant that has existed on Earth for millions of years. It is theorized that the fern developed out of the green and red algaes in the journey from water to land. The fern produces spores and is self fertilizing. The fern has no seed. The Braken Fern appears on areas that once were ablaze with fire. The presence of ferns in a decimated area is to consider the survival of ferns over time. The conception of the ferns are identified as a development of eukaryotic cells.
Eukaryotic cells include human, animalian, plant, fungi and protist cells.1 The fossils of eukaryotic life that have been encountered in scientific inquiry have presented the history of eukaryotic life that dates back to 2.1 billion years of cellular activity.2 The first cell forms found were the prokaryotes from whom the eukaryote cells emerged.3 The adaptations into eukaryotic life have been theorized into two possibilities: The first possibility is that the prokaryotes experienced a membrane infolding which captured the organelles and nucleus within the membrane fold.4 This is excepting of two organelles, chloroplasts and mitochondria, whose adaptation into a eukaryotic cell was said to be made through an endosymbiosis with a prokaryote cell.5 The results were the creation of the eukaryote cells.
Eukaryotes cells can be observed through microscope as highly adaptive and highly developed cells of protists, plants, fungi, humans and animals.6 The means to identify the closest ancestor of the original adaptation of the eukaryotes cell is to observe the protists, who are the closest descendents of the original eukaryotes.7 Such observation of eukaryotic cells today is to acknowledge the division of eukaryotic cells, to observe the complexities within each cell, and to recognize the unicellular and multicellular protists of the eukaryotes chain from which terrestrial plant life emerged.8
The protists are not simply the representation of a 2 billion year old cell, but as the origin of life adapting from water to land. The theory of adaptation is that it is from the unicellular protists algae, that red and green multicellular algae developed which are plant like however lacking in stems, roots and leaves.9 It is from this adaptation into a muticellular organism algae, that plants are understood to have developed onto the land.10 One of the primary origins of eukaryotic cells on land can be found as the fern, one of the oldest members of the terrestrial plant species.11
FERNS
In regards to the conservaton efforts of science and civilians, attempting to end deforestation, end the removal of ecosystems, and control the domestication or agriculturalization of angiosprems in place of the original communities, one must first consider what the original habitats were, and how one might return the organisms to that said ecosystem in the name of conservation and preservation of species.
It was written that the burning of fossil fuels emits CO2 into the atmosphere that is the catalyst for change as global warming.12 One solution of conservation and preservation is to return plants to their natural habitats and allow growth beyond that habitat. As plants use CO2 to create photosynthetic foods the plants could therefore consume the abundance of CO2 to clear the air polutants.13 This said compensation for an abudance of CO2 is potentially the means to quell global warming. It is hypothesized that the return to growth of plants in a natural environment would consume the excess CO2 in the biosphere through photosynthesis and would in that way reduce the increasing rate of both CO2 levels and its effect, global warming.
The domestication of plants can alter an environment or ecosystem, invasively overtaking the original species, displacing the original lives. However, domestication can also be used to incubate seedlings of endangered species, to be returned in the end to a natural environment, hence aiding in their survival.
Species such as protists are billions of years old.14 The protists have survived massive extreemes and changes in the biosphere. Would not the protists survive the changes that have occured in this past century without assistence or rather, do they require a sybiosis in order to survive or adapt. The question is, do we need to aid the species in their survival or do we rather agree with Darwin's theory of "natural selection (and) evolution". 15
Adaptation reveals new species emerging from the changes in environments. Ancient species grow alongside such youth. To allow new species to exist while enabling the preservaton of the ancient species as representations of ancient, primary life forms on Planet Earth, that could lead to great discoveries in regards to the history of the biosphere Earth, is to preserve plant life as dominantly as humans preserve themselves, and is one accomodation for the salvaging of living species from extinction. New species shed light on the present day adaptations and can reveal the life structure to aid humanity in understanding their own capacity.
If a community weren't to consume the foods of the ancient species, or have a use of some application ammoungst the threatened ecosystems, would conserving or preserving them as ancients or modern adaptations be as direct a reasoning for acceptance to the mission of preservation, or do humans, the catalyst for ecological changes today, require a use or a function in order to enable preservation.
The function of this discourse is to discover the Braken Fern in Nova Scotia, a 420 million years old ancient species, and to discuss the preservation of ancient species as primary neccessities upon which life is dependent for protection.16
End Notes
1. Campbell, Neil A., Reece, Jane B., Taylor, Martha R., Simon, Eric J.; Biology: Concepts and Connections Fifth Edition; Pearson Education Ltd.; Brnjamin Cummings, San Francisco, 2008 p.333
2. Ibid: p.332
3.Ibid
4. Ibid
5. Ibid
6. Ibid: p.333
7. Ibid
8.Ibid; P.338
9. Ibid: p.336
10.Ibid p: 338
11.Ibid: p.346
12.Ibid: p.350
13.Ibid:p.3
14. Ibid:p.333
15. Ibid:p.8
16. Ibid: p.346
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