Ex-situ conservation method does not include :

(A) Cryopreservation

(B) National park

(C) Zoological park

(D) Sacred groves

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(B) and (D) Only

The correct answer is Option (3) - (B) and (D) Only

Ex situ Conservation– In this approach, threatened animals and plants are taken out from their natural habitat and placed in special setting where they can be protected and given special care.

Zoological parks, botanical gardens and wildlife safari parks serve this purpose. There are many animals that have become extinct in the wild but continue to be maintained in zoological parks. In recent years ex situ conservation has advanced beyond keeping threatened species in enclosures.

Now gametes of threatened species can be preserved in viable and fertile condition for long periods using cryopreservation techniques, eggs can be fertilised in vitro, and plants can be propagated using tissue culture methods.

Seeds of different genetic strains of commercially important plants can be kept for long periods in seed banks. Biodiversity knows no political boundaries and its conservation is therefore a collective responsibility of all nations.

National park and Sacred groves are under In-situ conservation .