 The practice of conservation biology should, within this view, be systematic conservation planning (Sarkar &amp; Margules 2002). What is being conceptualised as biodiversity is revealed by this activity. This decision procedure involves using algorithms to identify a conservation area network; a conservation area that best optimises the interests of local stakeholders. Local stakeholders, people with an interest in that land, decide what features they want to prioritise. While stakeholder can have a wide range of interests in this land, they must include “biodiversity constituents” or “true surrogates” (Sarkar 2005, 2012). These describe the biotic features that the procedure maximises. “Biodiversity constituents” might appear to largely overlap with “biodiversity” in the sense of variety: a list of items, or measures of variety that describe biological items, which we aim to preserve. However, these items are not necessarily measuring biotic variety, as Sarkar includes sacred groves or the Monarch Butterfly Migration route as constituents of biodiversity. Sarkar stipulates that biodiversity constituents must satisfy the following conditions: they must be biological, variability of biotic features must be represented, taxonomic spread should be represented, these biotic features should not just be those of material use (Sarkar 2005; 2012). As such, there are adequacy conditions which guide what the procedure optimises and, as a result, conserves.