How can we protect natural vegetation and wildlife?

Question

How can we protect natural vegetation and wildlife?

Answer 1

Do little things like take care of your yard, don't use pesticides, put up bird feeders, get a group together to pick up trash, recycle, get a toad abode (a frog house, my newest obsession), plant flower gardens, unplug hair dryers and phone chargers and the like, drink tap water instead of bottled, wear the same pair of jeans twice if they aren't that dirty, use biodegradable loofahs instead of the plastic ones (they work better) take shorter showers, donate clothes to the needy instead of throwing them away, when you cut your hair, gather up the clippings and leave them outside for bird nests, dispose of batteries properly, dry clothes on a line when possible, cut the circles out of the soda rings...i've ran out of ideas.

Answer 2

Help local land managers do restoration activities like removing exotic invasive plant species, and planting native species.  Wildlife is adapted to native species in any given area, and the biodiversity will flourish.

Convert your home, school, church or business to wildlife habitat.  The National Wildlife Federation has a program that is thin but a good step in helping set up urban buffer zones that can help support wildlife in an era where wilderness areas continue to shrink.

Join an organization that works to affect change, like The Nature Conservancy, or the Trust for Public Lands.  Both do great work.  There are other organizations out there doing great work, too.

Answer 3

Support the rights of hunters and gun owners, who generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year for wildlife and habitat conservation through the Pittman-Robertson Act, hunting licenses, donations to private groups like Ducks Unlimited, etc.

Answer 4

Destruction of natural vegetation and attack on the abode of wild life in the name of development by human beings is taking place every minute right in front of our eyes.  How disasterous it has become is corroborated in brief, with facts as below:

a) Himalayan and Kilimanjero mountains range glaciers have been melting much faster than they were about 10 years ago and are flowing into the seas - disaster: flooded rivers, fertile soil erosion with destruction of valuable flora and fauna

b)rise in sea level: Frequency of waves with alarming increase in height reaching the shores with flash gale force and sucking away the valuable land into the depths of oceans - During the last 10 years, TWO ESTUARY ISLANDS Lohachara and Suparibhanga, inhibited with tribals in a cluster of 100 islands in the Sunderbans Forest reserve area - the home of royal bengal tigers in Bay of Bengal HAVE DISPPEARED under the sea due to increase in sea level. Rare animal species viz.,Water Buffalo, Javan Rhino,Swamp Deers, Barking Deers have vanished from these forest islands.  Submerging of islands has resulted in mass movement and migration of tribal people to high lands. they have become homeless and need immediate rehabilitation at considerable expense - similar is the case along the coastal areas of southern peninsular India. A developing country like India is facing ecological disaster due to uncontrolled global warming being perpetrated by developed countries.

d)UN Environment study has revealed that due to increased melting and shrinking of glaciers, world has lost 10.5 meters of water equivalent and has lost thousands of hectares of land. Satellite data indicates that Arctic Sea ice has shrunk by 2.7 per cent per decade and sea level has risen by 1.8 cm per decade since 1960.

e)Due to uncontrolled destruction of forest areas by greedy men for development purpose, the ever green carbon sinks have been alarmingly reduced and a study has revealed that whatever remains will not be able to absorb CO2 more than what the ecology can afford. The present spewing of 35 per cent of CO2 is proving costly.

f) Low grade coal used in thermal plant for never ending demand for power generation is spewing too much of CO2.

g)Increase in population is also a contributing factor towards increasing CO2 and is hastening the ecological disaster.

g)Report of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)reveals that by 2070 Kolkota (estimated population: 14 million) and Bombay (40 million) will be the most vulnerable cities to get submerged under water due to increased in mean sea level of about 1.6 feet; estimated financial impact would be $35 trillion.

h)Bio-diversity is taking place at a fast pace and every hour 3 species and every hour 150 species and every year 18000 to 55,000 species are being lost; enchanting corals under sea are getting bleeched and are loosing their natural color and lustre due to increase in underwater temperature.

i)It is reported that in many parts of the world we will be witnessing disappearance of various species of life forms due to bio-diversity and different levels of rising temperatures - In Arctic region, only 750 polar bears are living, in Indonesia Orangutans are having difficult time in adjusting to increased heat, in India, the the number of Chinkaaras, Blackbucks is dwindling, in Mauritious the Dodo bird is not seen for decades,in Europe, honey bee colonies have collapsed thus considerable reduction in natural polination of fruits,vegetables and seed crops is expected to harm the food production capacity, similarly vanishing of birds species, butterflies is causing an alarming situation, in Australia alone, 41.51% of endemic plant species, 14% of reptiles,18% frogs,10% of birds, and 15% mammals will be lost.

k)Temperature between 1995 and 2006 - 11 years, was the warmest since 1850.

l)The GEO-4 group has warned that due to increase in consumption and associated wastes, serious problems about air quality, fresh water availability and a threat to food security will threaten the mankind.

m)Every year more than 5,00,000 people are dying due to pollution and 660 million people are lacking access to safe water.

n)In Asia Pacific region the number of cars and two wheelers increased by 10% thus increased emission of CO2.

o)Scientists have recognised that that there has been an increase of 0.6 per cent degree celsius in global temperature over last century. By 2100 arctic ice is expected to melt completely, heavy summer rainfall, increased incidences of heatwaves and tropical storms, submergence of low lying coastal areas, lower agricultural production and due to overexploitation of natural resources the world will be literally 'power'less by the year 2100.

   There are thousands of other reasons that are hastening the ecological disaster and if man does not improve his behaviour in safeguarding even the meagre resources available, he alone will be responsible for hastening the end of the world.

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Answer 5

i think by protecting the forest and teaching to children that we have to protect the animals and plants

Answer 6

Eat rocks

Answer 7

By not interfering, with Mother Nature's ways.