geography living world case studied
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- Created on: 08-05-17 16:27
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- living world case studies
- Atlantic forest, Brazil-deforestation
- causes
- expansion of sao paulo and rio de janiero
- logging
- mining
- new roads and logging trails
- farm land
- solutions
- debt for nature swaps- a rich country like USA cancels debt of a poorer country like Peru in exchange for more nature protection in Peru
- forest stewardship council (FSC) promotes sustainable logging firms which reduces demand for wood from unsustainable enterprises
- selective logging- where only mature trees are felled to maintain canopy to stop rain washing away nutrients in the soil
- non-for-profit organisations(NGO's) organise debt for nature swaps are do conservation work to protect endangered species
- causes
- Epping forest
- some grass left uncut to encourage wildlife, like butterflies
- paths marked out to stop people trampling vegetation and disturbing wildlife
- dead wood left as a home for insects and food for fungi
- uses or rich deserts-Australian outback
- retiremnet villages like mount gambier
- large cattle ranches as their is plenty of space
- mining
- tourism to see uluru rock and experience aboriginal culture. 400,000 people visited the outback in 2005
- hunting and gathering
- uses of poor deserts- Thar desert, India
- the new Indira Ghandi canal irrigates farmland to grow wheat and cotton
- mining of limestone and gypsum
- tourism-locals can be guides and provide transport, like camels
- Atlantic forest, Brazil-deforestation
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