PPT-Chapter 10 Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity:

The Ecosystem Approach Individuals Matter Wangari Maathari and Kenya s Green Belt Movement Green Belt Movement 1977 Selfhelp group of women in Kenya Success of tree planting 50000 members planted 40 million trees. The complexity and rich diversity of life found in forests provides many vital services to human beings Nonetheless humans are destroying forest biodiversity at an alarming rate The conversion of forests to agricultural land overgrazing unsustainabl They are internationally recognized nominated by nati onal governments and remain under sovereign jurisdiction of the states where they are lo cated Biosphere reserves serv e in some ways as living laboratories for testing out and demonstrati ng int To overcome this constraint Andean people have always had to be strategic to ensure that they have enough food and enough of the right kinds of food Instead of fighting the restrictions that their location and climate impose on food production they Vegetation and Terrestrial Wildlife. Vegetation. Plant Communities. Disturbance. Unique Communities. Wildlife. Amphibians and Reptiles. Birds. Mammals. Terrestrial Ecology: Vegetation. Goals of vegetation sampling on ODOT projects. Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity. Core Case Study: A Biological Roller Coaster Ride in Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria has lost their endemic fish species to large introduced predatory fish.. Figure 12-1. Win . Maung. Chairman. Myanmar Environment Institute (MEI). To . protect . ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation is . essential. -(. supporting services. —e.g. nutrient cycling, soil formation, primary production; . Industrial Heritage . Sites. Ian . Bapty. , Industrial Heritage Support Officer, . Ironbridge. Gorge Museum Trust. A talk for the . ‘Making it Work’ Conference, Wheal . Martyn. , St Austell, 18 /. It is the variety of all the different living things and their homes on the planet. . BIO. . DIVERSITY. Bio= biological organisms . -living things!. diversity= the amount of variation. Case Study: Protecting Whales: A Success Story… So Far (1) . Cetaceans: Toothed whales and baleen whales. 8 of 11 major species hunted to commercial extinction by 1975. 1946: International Whaling Commission (IWC). Issues of interest to the region. Challenges and proposals. 13. th. . Conference of the OIE Regional Commission for . Middle East. Beirut, Lebanon, 11-13 November 2015. Dr Etienne Bonbon. President. All seven species in danger through:. Trawler fishing. Destroyed many coral gardens that are turtle feeding grounds. Turtles hunted for leather. Eggs taken for food. Pollution of ocean water. Case Study: The Plight of Sea Turtles. landscapes of the Witu protected area and surroundings in Lamu County, Kenya Mordecai Ogada, Grace Koech and Josephat Nyongesa Assessment of the biodiversity in terrestrial landscapes of the Witu pro Saving Species and Ecosystem Services. Bees play a key role in pollination. Globally, about one third of the food supply comes from insect-pollinated plants. Currently, agriculture depends heavily on a single species of bee. The Species Approach. Core Case Study: Polar Bears and . Global Warming. Polar Bears. 20,000-25,000 . in the . Arctic. Most calories in winter from seals on sea . ice. Environmental impact on polar bears.