NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES

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NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES

• REANN McNEARY
• AND
• DONOVAN T. SMALLS

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NATIONAL PARKS

• OVER 1,100 NATIONAL PARKS
• THREATENED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES

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National Parks

• Developing (1 park protection)
• Less money/invaders
• Too small to sustain large species

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National Parks in U.S.

• National Park System (est.1912)
• BIGGEST ISSUE Popularity
• Park rangers (better paying jobs)
• Nonnative species
• (gray wolf) Yellowstone
• Air pollution

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Solutions

• Increase funds for park repairs
• Limit number of visitors
• Increase number and pay of park rangers
• Encourage volunteers to give visitors lectures
  and tours

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Nature Reserves

• Protect more land (biodiversity)
• 88 land protect
• 12 protected in ice/desert

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Taking Sides for Conservation

• Most conserved areas contain valuable resources
• It sustains all life and economies and serves as
  a center of future evolution

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COSTA RICA
SUPERPOWER OF BIODIVERSITY

• Large proportion of land to conservation
• Pays landowners to restore tree coverage
• Reduced deforestation
• GOAL to make sustaining forest profitable

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The Nature Conservancy

• Land conservation through private action
• Private donations
• Maintain funds for buying pieces of land or
  wetland threatened by development or human act.

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Biosphere Reserves

• Three zones
• Core zone (ecosystem)
• Buffer zone (protects core)
• Transition zone (surrounds inner buffer)
• Too Little funding (a lot to manage)

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Wilderness

• Land legally set aside
• Prevent human activity
• Should contain (1,500) square miles
• Benefits
• Beauty of nature
• Away from noise and stress
• Enjoy nature
• Provides home for animals to be free

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