ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS

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ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS

• pp 444 - 452

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HUMAN RESOURCE USE

• ecological (carbon) footprint how much we impact
  the environment
• sustainability the ability to meet human needs

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IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY

• What happens if you remove a species?
• Can lose biodiversity
• Unbalance a food web
• Areas already with low richness are most at risk

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PROTECTING ECOSYSTEMS

• Biodiversity hotspots regions with the highest
  diversity that are most in danger

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FIELDS OF STUDY

• Conservation biology identify, protect, and
  maintain natural areas at risk
• Restoration biology rebuild the damaged
  ecosystems

• Use bioindicators (species especially sensitive
  to change) as early warning signals of
  environmental problems

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CASE STUDYSaving the whooping crane
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GOVERNMENT LAWS

• Debt-for-nature swap richer countries or private
  companies pay smaller/poorer countries for
  undeveloped land or education programs

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PRIVATE EFFORTS

• Ecotourism tourism and conservation biology
  working together

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MAINTENANCE OF BIODIVERSITY

• utilitarian value economic values of
  biodiversity
• nonutilitarian value life-forms have value