chapter 13 notes
Chapter 13 Notes
Preserving and Restoring Nature
Parks and Natural Reserves
Occupy a small percentage of our land however they protect valuable cultural/biological resources
Park numbers have grown in recent years however they are being challenged in recent years
Wildlife, Lands and Parks serve many often contradictory demands
Forms of recreation, wildlife habitat and extraction of timber oil minerals and gas
Globally protected areas have expanded ten fold in the past 50 years
Need to meet diverse needs(hunting farming and protection)
Developing Countries
Suffered from poaching and logging
Recent efforts like the Man and Biosphere program have tried to balance man and ecological needs
Landscapes
Patchiness and heterogeneity are characteristics
Ecosystem management involves long periods of time, human resources and a maintaining of biodiversity and ecological systems
Restoration Ecology
Restore
Rehabilitate ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Re-Create
Hope to maintain original species in their original locations( but how authentic should it be?)
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