SARATH KSMOUNT TABOR B.Ed TRAINING COLLEGE ,

PATHANAPURAM

EX-SITU CONSERVATION

EX-SITU CONSERVATION

The conservation method in which organisms are protected outside their natural habitat

Eg:- Zoological gardens , Botanical gardens , Gene banks

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Zoological gardens areconservation centres where different varieties of animals are protected and housed seperately.They also function as conservation centres of organisms which have become extinct in wild

Eg:- Thiruvananthapuram zoo , Thrissur zoo

BOTANICAL GARDENS

These are wild research centres where rare and important plants of diverse species are protected.

Eg:-JNTBGRI at Thiruvananthapuram , Malabar Botanical Garden at Kozhikode

GENE BANKS

These are research centres with facilities to collect seeds and gamates to preserve them for a long time .Organisms can be recreated out of them wheneve required.

Eg:- Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology at Thiruvananthapuram