The importance of biodiversity is being more widely recognized as increasing numbers of species come under threat. What can be done to maintain biodiversity? My essay: In recent years there has been growing awareness of the importance of preserving the world’s biological diversity. As increasing numbers of unique, and potentially useful, plants and animals come under threat, people are beginning to ask whether more can be done to reserve this trend. One possible approach is to regulate agricultural and industrial activity so that pollution and disruption to natural habitats is kept to a minimum.
However, what may be debatable is the reasoning behind the environmental cause. On many organizations’ websites, their reasons stated for attempting to save endangered species include medicinal, research, and economical benefits. While these are incredibly important, these justifiers are also taking the animal away from the issue. The issue now is about humans and how we suffer from a species dying out, when the foundation of the matter should be the wellbeing of the animals and the ecosystems to which they belong and contribute. The idea of human responsibility is the understanding of obligation a human should feel toward a cause or situation, recognizing the impact humans as a whole have had on the issue.
Geography 101 13 July 2013 The Deforestation of the Amazon The deforestation of the Amazon is going to have catastrophic consequences. The legal and illegal results of chopping down trees in this great wetland, has dire consequences that our generation may not suffer but future generations will. “The Amazon is a vast region that spans across eight rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France. The landscape contains: one in ten known species on Earth; 1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's remaining tropical forests; 4,100 miles of winding rivers, 2.6 million square miles in the Amazon basin, about 40 percent of South America” (“Amazon”). So you ask, why does it matter if we chop down a few trees?
Aim: Numerous environmental variables influence plant growth. The aim of this experiment is to determine the optimum atmosphere that a plant has to live in, in order to allow ideal growth. Background information: Plant Growth and distribution are limited by the environment. If any one envrionmental factor is less than ideal it will become a limiting factor in plant growth. Limiting factors are also responsible for the geography of plant distribution.
What is Biodiversity? Is it important? Relate Biodiversity to the Trophic Levels. Biodiversity is the dependence of all living organisms in an area depending upon one another for survival. The importance of biodiversity is shown in the fact that one specific plant or animal cannot be removed from an ecosystem without upsetting the
That is to say that the more members we have in our community (people) the more complex our ethics and tools become as a way to cope with the increase in population in a way that keeps the individuals happy For instance; the golden rule or Democracy’s integration of social organization to the individual. The next process of evolution in ethics is to include the soil, water and animals of the planet. He explains the importance of this step by describing what the land does for us and what the land is and describes history as being shaped by the resources we seek on the land. There are many consequences to our actions and Leopold names a few as a catalyst for a land ethic as he describes it. For example, regions grazed by livestock causes plant recession, erosion, and further plant recession.
Use case study p.55 community of Wakapoa, population under 40 no longer speak native language. Family traditions lost. Deforestation -ve - The greatest threat to the increase in soya production in the Amazonia would be greater clearance of the rainforest in order to increase the amount of agricultural land available. Also caused by logging and locals farming. P. 80 area size of Wales cleared in N & S
In order to understand each environmental challenge well enough to develop viable solutions, scientists must have expertise in several disciplines of science. A well-trained environmental scientist must have mastered physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, botany, and hydrogeology. Furthermore, understand the role of cultural and economic factors, as well as social and political science are vital to the success of an environmental scientist. The Earth itself is a interconnected system; parts of the system change over time. Human beings alter natural systems and have always had an impact on the environment.
In short, environmental sustainability focuses on how the natural resources should be preserved for the present and future generation, whereas social sustainability focuses on the conservation and growth for the wellbeing of the current and the future generation and last but not least the economic sustainability has not yet been appropriately generalized but is commonly referred to as the capability of an economy to sustain a distinct level of economic invention for life. Keywords Social sustainability, Environmental sustainability, Economic sustainability 1. Introduction In our society, a new state of thinking has emerged. By ignoring the implications, we are becoming fanatical of wanting more than we have and tend to be greedy. We are only thinking of the present and have no care for the future like the hedonism culture.
Deforestation In Thailand Proposal Large areas of the world’s forest are being destroyed as you read this sentence. Volcanoes are erupting, floods are flooding and fires are burning; but with these occurrences the forest will emerge again to become what it once was. Unfortunately this is not the major reason that the forest are being depleted, Deforestation, the permanent loss of forestland, caused by humans is the main cause. With natural disasters the land is left to replenish itself but with deforestation the land becomes un-sustainable to forest life. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) “estimates that the annual rate of deforestation is about 1.3 million square km per decade, with the main deforestation occurring in the tropics where a wide variety of forest exist”.