...UNESCO Paper- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System Mary E. Willis June 24, 2011 SCI/230 Gregory Becoat UNESCO Paper- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System Charles Darwin was quoted in 1842 describing the Belize Barrier Reef as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" (Encyclopedia). This description still holds true today. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, which includes the Belize submarine shelf and its barrier reef is the world's second largest barrier reef system and the largest reef complex in the Atlantic-Caribbean area (Programme-wo, 2009). What makes a reef like the Belize Barrier Reef system so special is that coral reefs are the most diverse of all wetlands and are home to more species than any other marine ecosystem (Wells). Also the reef system offers more varieties of coral formation than anywhere else in the Caribbean (Encyclopedia). For people to appreciate and understand the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve system, they need to know about the many species that call this place home, the threats against the preservation of the reef, and what is being done to protect and preserve the reef. Once this happens my hope is more people will become involved in the safeguarding of this wonderful place. The Belize Barrier Reef system is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. The Belize Barrier Reef system is home to 70 hard coral species, 36 soft coral species, more than 500 species of fish, and hundreds of invertebrate species. The hundreds of invertebrate...
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...Island Biogeography Theory To determine the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Island Biography Theory to establishing a biodiversity preserve, we must first fully understand the theory. The larger the land mass, the more diverse and the more species that will be present. Verse a smaller land mass that will not have as much species in the area. This land mass does not technically have to be an actual island but a piece of land that may be cut off from outside resources. For example, a mountain peak or a preserve that has had development all around it and is not connected to any other land mass. Due to the high levels of development around the United States, most preserves have no choice but to become an island. There are a few...
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...Introduction Maintaining diversity within any population is exceptionally important to the sustainability of any ecosystem or environment. The cycle of life shows us that all species have another species that they rely on for several necessities. Some species use other species for sustenance, some for shelter, or hunting skills. The reasons why species rely on each other vary; however, the need is infinitely important. We will discuss why genetic diversity is so important. We will explain why population management and diversity is necessary to the successful survival of every population. Lastly, we will compare and contrast the ex situ and in situ methods of conservation. It is extremely important for humanity to take responsibility for the failings of some ecosystems and this paper allows us to see the ways that we, as humanity, can help to reverse that damage. Genetic Diversity in Populations Genetic diversity also known as the level of biodiversity simply measures the number of genetic characteristics that the genetic makeup of a particular species consists of. It is different from the term genetic variability as they are many times used alternatively but in reality they are different. So why is genetic diversity so important? It is the basis for the populations of various living species to adapt themselves as the surrounding environment changes. If there is no genetic diversity many of the species will vanish off the face of earth. The environment on the earth changes...
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...conducive to a balanced and sustainable economic growth. The BSP also aims to promote and preserve monetary stability and the convertibility of the national currency. Responsibilities The BSP provides policy directions in the areas of money, banking and credit. It supervises operations of banks and exercises regulatory powers over non-bank financial institutions with quasi-banking functions. Under the New Central Bank Act, the BSP performs the following functions, all of which relate to its status as the Republic’s central monetary authority. * Liquidity Management. The BSP formulates and implements monetary policy aimed at influencing money supply consistent with its primary objective to maintain price stability. * Currency issue. The BSP has the exclusive power to issue the national currency. All notes and coins issued by the BSP are fully guaranteed by the Government and are considered legal tender for all private and public debts. * Lender of last resort. The BSP extends discounts, loans and advances to banking institutions for liquidity purposes. * Financial Supervision. The BSP supervises banks and exercises regulatory powers over non-bank institutions performing quasi-banking functions. * Management of foreign currency reserves. The BSP seeks to maintain sufficient international reserves to meet any foreseeable net demands for foreign currencies in order to preserve the international stability and convertibility of the Philippine peso. * Determination...
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...quality and quantity. Damage to ecosystem can cause changes in disease ecology, leading to the emergence of rare and unknown diseases or the resurgence of diseases that were previously controlled. We also lost indicators of the ability of ecosystem to support life of all kinds, including human life, finally, living in a world lacking the beauty and tranquility inherent in diverse, intact ecosystems had profound effects on out mental health. 2. According to the information in the exhibit human population has exploded since the invention of agriculture and people are transforming the land for farming and the industrial revolution has increased the rate of expansion of cities, roads and manufacturing facilities. I agree that we need to preserve biodiversity as it makes up the structure of the ecosystem and habitats that support essential living resources, including wildlife, fisheries and forests. It also helps provide for basic human needs such as food, shelter and medicine. 3. Biome is a very large area on the earth’s surface with animals and plants adapting to their environment. Biomes are often defined by abiotic factors such as climate, geology, soils and vegetation. The nine Biomes are described in the Hall are Tropical Forests, Tropical Grassland and Savannas, Deserts, Island, Tundra, Temperate and Boreal Forests, Oceans, Freashwater Wetland, Rivers and Lakes, and Coral Reefs and Coastal Wetlands. 4. My favorite Biome is the Tropical Forests- Location-...
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...striking and sensational scenery, with a variety of wildlife environments where plant and animal life naturally or normally lives and grows. The Biological Interrelationships The biology to life and the living processes of the sanctuary is founded by the UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Tiger Reserve Project, an Elephant Reserve and a Biosphere Reserve in Assam, India, and is in contact touching along a boundary with the Royal Manas National park in Bhutan. The sanctuary is well known for its endangered and rare wildlife species like the Pygmy hog, tiger, and Assam Roofed Turtle, Asian Monkeys, and Hispid Hare. The goal of the National reserves is to preserve and fully fund the sanctuary to keep the wildlife from becoming extinct and alive and to thrive for many years to come. This is an effort that will take all people involved to help keep things organized and maintained. The National park reserve also constitutes the main core of the Manas Tiger Reserve that protects the important migratory wildlife resource along its borders of the West Bengal to the Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan borderlines. The wetlands are an international importance to the reserve for the...
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...Outline: The influences of Alan Greenspan on the Economy -About the Federal Reserve 1. Year Alan Greenspan appointed. 2. Duties of the Federal Reserve -Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman (1987) 1.Stock Market crash -Savings and Loan Crisis (1988-1982) 1. Bank Failures 2. Recession -Economy Growth(1993-2000) 1. Dot.com ere 2. Federal Surplus 3. Millennium 4.Clinton Era -(2001), and beyond on the economy 1.President Bush 2.9/11 3.Recession 4. Dot.com bubble 5. Housing boom and bubble -Conclusion(2006) 1. Greenspan Retires Alan Greenspan was the Federal Reserve chairman for the last nineteen years he was the longest chairman in that position. Alan Greenspan was first appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and retired under President Bush in 2006. The chairman of the Federal Reserve is appointed every four years by the president, and then the Senate. The Federal Reserve is in charge of the financial system in the United States, and is independent part of the government that is not influenced by politics. The duties of the Federal Reserve are to preserve a sound banking system, preserve the power of dollar, print money if needed, and to regulate interest rate policies. Alan Greenspan had massive influence on the economy when he was the chairman of the reserve he set the tone of the economy when the Federal Reserve met, and that was mostly done by regulating interest rates. After Alan Greenspan...
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...Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change paper Zachery Thursday, February 12, 2015 SCI 256 Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change paper Prior to restoration the area now known as the Chamna Natural Preserve was used to facilitate illegal dumping and racing. It was not until 1997 that cleanup of this shrub-steppe ecosystem began. Area such as this have begun to be maintained by associations with the intentions of restoring or maintaining these natural reserves. We will discuss the major structural and functional dynamics for the Chamna Natural Preserve. Along with how humans may have affected the cycling of matter in the ecosystem, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, or carbon. How knowledge can or has helped to develop plans for restoration or management. Then finally about the implications of species interactions in this specific ecosystem. Structures and Functions of the Chamna Natural Preserve The Functional dynamics of this shrub-steppe ecosystem are undergoing change, and people are involved. According to Smith (2001), “Climate change will alter the nitrogen cycling in the fragile soil of semi-arid desert regions.” Since nitrogen loss is more prevalent in warmer, drier areas then cooler, wetter areas. The microbial processes related to the cycling of nitrogen are more related to the changes is climate, then by plant competition for nitrogen. Meaning that the stability of this shrub-steppe ecosystem is highly dependent on the ecosystems ability to adjust to changing...
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...world's longest and most expensive oil pipeline. Trumping China with a more generous financing offer, Japan, the world's second-largest oil importer, hopes that the pipe, 1.2 meters, or four feet, in diameter, will bind it to Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter. It may be a decade before the 2,580-mile pipeline is completed. But the line would represent an increase of about one-third in Russia's oil pipeline export capacity and would signify a major Russian shift toward the Pacific, where oil could be sold to any country, including the United States. The project faces major hurdles. There are no guarantees that there will be enough oil to fill the pipeline, although Russia has as much as 67 billion barrels of untapped oil reserves along the pipeline route. When the oil reaches the Sea of Japan, there are no public commitments binding Russia to sell it to Japan, whose ports are only a day's sail away. And Russia's last-minute switch of the Pacific terminal site from an existing oil port to this pristine bay is already putting Japanese banks in the cross hairs of a growing global environmental protest movement. The Kremlin has vowed not to contribute state funds for the pipeline construction. Instead, Transneft, the state pipeline monopoly, has been told by Moscow to find its own financing, preferably on international markets....
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...Natural Resources and Energy Paper 9-2012 SCI/256 Natural Resources and Energy Paper The first national park in the United States was Yellowstone National Park, which was created in 1872. At this time, the concept of a national park was new for people; however, it was a great thing because it allowed the people the ability to preserve and protect the best of what they had for the benefit and enjoyment of all future generations. Yellowstone National Park is located in a rugged region where the states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana come together. This rugged region is made up of alpine and sub-alpine forests, as well as, mountains of high elevation. Recognized for its ecological value, Yellowstone national park was designated as a Biosphere Reserve in 1976; a biosphere reserve is an environmental area which is highly sensitive that has protected status, which is managed primarily to preserve natural ecological conditions. This paper on Yellowstone national park will be discussing the impacts associated with agriculture, the effects that a growing human population can have on the resources of an ecosystem, a management practice to help with sustainability, the risks and benefits for extracting renewable and nonrenewable energy resource for the ecosystem, and management practices for sustainability and conservation of natural resources and energy. The Yellowstone National Park is home to many large animals such as bison, elk, grizzle bear, and wolf. The enactment of legislation...
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...The government should stop any mining companies from digging up their reserves because they have been there so long, and the fact that it has happened in the past shouldn't have been allowed because they are reserves for a reason. It is so that they are able preserve the land and the things that are on it. I don't think that the government should take away any funding that has to do with the aboriginals, because clearly if they are doing all these things to the aboriginals like taking away child welfare, giving them a bad education and taking away health rights, they need their funding more than any other Canadian. They also need to be given better and more sufficient housing. They need to do this because right now the house and circumstances they are living under are not acceptable. They should be given more jobs, they have very high unemployment rates. The unemployment rate as of 2010 is 43% which means...
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...responsibility of all participants? The moral responsibility of all the participants are to decide if it is morally right to drill for gas in a natural reserve. The government should look at what the land is set aside for, not what they can acquire form the natural reserve. The Bureau of Land Management, and the BLM Field Manager is also responsible because they are the ones that process the applications to drill. The gas companies that wish to drill are responsible for drill in a safe and way that the land and animals are not affected by the drilling. * What are the stakeholders' moral failings? The failing of the US government is that they want the energy companies to be able to drill for gas to benefit from the energy and monetary value that this will provide the country. The BLM has the failing in that they rarely deny an application to drill. “How many of those applications have you rejected? Actually, percentage wise very few but I have changed many.” (The BLM Field Manager in Pinedale, 2004). The failing of the energy companies is that they do not care about the environment that they are drilling in and are causing damage to the ecosystem. * What ideals or obligations are in conflict? The obligations that are in conflict is that the land in question is set aside as a natural reserve to preserve a part of the US land in its natural state and keep the animal life that live their intact without...
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...Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Change In this essay I would like to talk about the fourth Connecticut Lake located in Pittsburg, NH. The main highlight of this ecosystem is that it has the straddling border between the United States and Canada. It is also one of the reserves for variety of native plants and floating bog. There are many other ecosystems around the place but this one is one unique and soothing place to learn about. There is a small glacial tarn that is settled below the ridgeline which separates the New Hampshire from Quebec. Now as already discussed that the reserve is the home of native species of places that are protected in here, there is a medium level fen system in this place. The medium level fen system refers to the open, acidic peat lands with more miner tropic influences than the poor level fen or bogs due to the effects of upland runoff, exposure to lake and stream water, or limited groundwater seepage. This ecosystem is located along the headwater of the Connecticut River. The Connecticut Lake are comprised of four parts name the first, second, third and fourth Connecticut lakes. In all the above mentioned lakes the fourth Connecticut is the north smallest and most remote of all the four Connecticut lakes that actually brings more diversity to grow here and due to the remoteness the place is also rich in vast diversity of plans and other living things. Actually it is the source of the Connecticut River...
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...and the Capital Structure of the Federal Reserve Strayer University Principles of Finance (FIN100) Abstract This paper will describe one way the US financial markets impact the economy. How the US financial markets impact businesses and one way that they impact individuals. Providing a brief explanation of the primary roles of the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Chairman, and the Federal Reserve Board. Explaining the ways that interest rates influence the US and global financial environment. We will also give an example of influence for both the US financial environment and one example of the global environment. The Federal Reserve System or Federal Reserve is the central banking system of the United States (US). Congress established this system in 1913 to provide America with an organized, secure, flexible monetary and financial system. This essentially creates stability by balancing systematic risks; according to the Federal Reserve website. There are a total of 12 Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the US. The banks generate their income based on services provided to other banks, interest accrued on government security bonds and interest accrued on loans and deposits. Each of the aforementioned generates income which is circulated back into the US Treasury. As mentioned in Investopedia, “The Fed’s mandate is to promote sustainable growth, high levels of employment, stability prices to help preserve the purchasing power of the dollar and moderate...
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...properties and there is potential to discover many others - Research to better understand the impact of reduced rainforest extractive reserves Future problems that may compromise sustainability - Increased commercial logging due to furniture exports providing Congo with much needed foreign revenue - Government does not have firm control of territory The development of improved roads plays a major role in converting the rainforest into grazing land. b.) The rainforest sustainability award should be given to Chico Mendes for his exemplary work in protecting the Brazilian rainforest, as well as becoming an international martyr advocating on behalf of extractive reserves. Mendes founded the National Council of Rubber Tapers in order to advocate on behalf of extractive farmers. Mendes convinced the Inter-American Development Bank to cancel a loan to the Brazilian government for road construction in Acre, he protested against the road construction as he felt it would threaten the rainforest as well as compromise the extractive reserves. Mendes successfully stopped a powerful cattle rancher from clearing forest land and as a result became an international martyr for his environmental movement. In conclusion, Chico Mendes is the best candidate for the rainforest sustainability award due to his dedication in advocating for the preservation of the extractive reserves as well as becoming an international martyr for the sake of the Brazilian rainforest. Lesson 10 Key Question: 10.) Canada has...
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