Write 8 pages with APA style on Conservation Areas. In his endeavour to develop and transform his way of living into a better mode of life, man has exploited the natural resources of the earth to attain food and raw materials. However, the ever-increasing population growth rate in the world and high mechanization witnessed in the last few centuries has driven the demand for these materials to a higher scale. This has resulted in the change of the trend of the accessing of the resources at a rate that can only be described as overexploitation. In order to maintain the sustainability of these resources, there has been a need to undertake certain projects and initiatives aimed at the conservation of the environment on a large number of fronts. One such project is the establishment of conservation areas all over the globe. A conservation area is a parcel of land with protected status and demarcated not for use in human development to maintain and safeguard the cultural heritage, natural features and biota in the area (Brockington et al., 2012). The conservation area can be a park, a nature reserve or a project of land reclamation. The projects of conservation have been beneficial in improving the state of the environment in the areas.

Conservation areas came into being because of the Civic Amenities Act of 1967 that sought to protect areas that had buildings with importance as a group. The act stipulates that a Conservation Area Advisory Committee will advise locals of a conservation area on the appropriateness of proposed developments (Kozwolski and Peterson, 2005). These conservation areas have advantages and disadvantages that yield benefits and demerits respectively.

One of the benefits of conservation areas is that they preserve the vegetation cover of the area. Trees in conservation areas receive blanket protection status. This applies restrictions concerning trees preventing the removal of trees without prior permission from the relevant authorities (Sodhi, et al., 2013).