Conservation of Forest Essay

According to Sharon Dalgleish, author of “Protecting Wildlife” one thousand years ago, 34% of the world was covered with forests. Fifty years ago, 32% of the world was covered in forests. Today, 12% of the world is covered in forests. Forests have a big role in the environment and keeping animals, as well as the air, healthy and clean. The world is losing one of its main resources. Instead of throwing away some paper that was used, put it into the recycling bin. Or, instead of sitting outside and doing nothing all day, plant a tree. These little things can help save forests and animals habitats that live inside of them. Deforestation invades habitats, hurts the earth and needs to be reduced. To start, conservation began in the eighteenth…

Gifford Pinchot’s Stand for Natural Conservation Natural resources play an integral role in a country’s success. Natural resources are in high demand because everyone needs them. Therefore, it would be beneficial for a country to have natural resources. Sometimes, countries even fight for control of natural resources. By controlling natural resources a country will have an immense amount of power (eSchooltoday). As a result, humans need to conserve the natural resources they have. Humans need…

Pinchot and the Forests From 1890-1920 the United States went through a period of reform known as the Progressive Era. The era’s reformers had a wide variety of social, political, and economic goals that they began pursuing at a grassroots level, such as temperance and women’s suffrage (“Progressive Era and World War I”). A significant facet of the era was the Conservation Movement, whose philosophy came from the writings of early naturalists such as John Muir (1838-1914) (“Conservative…

Frequency (N) Percentage (%) Positive 67 79 Mixed 11 13 Negative 7 8 Total 85 100 Respondents’ suggestions for pangolin conservation in Rani community forest • Co-operation from all the community members is required to achieve success in conservation. • Conservation…

challenge preconceptions about conservation and conservation decision making by sketching a heuristic contrast between Big Conservation and Little Conservation (see Alcorn 1995, 13-30)” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). In Alcorn argument on this book which is “the first decision makers we think of are governments and international conservation organizations” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). We don’t agree with Alcorn argument. Based on our opinion, the Alcorn argument said that indigenous people…

The conservation movement within the United States was the ending of an unlimited national resource era and the beginning of the creation of nature as capitalism. Between the years of 1850-1930 government opened up national parks and forest in hopes to balance out the effects of westward expansion and the depletion of America’s natural advantages. Within this movement there were many key officials such as Theodore Roosevelt who saw the benefits in protecting the United States natural sights.…

according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a substantial decline from the more than 2 million that existed a hundred years ago. Humans' closest genetic cousins, chimpanzees are an endangered species, and scientists and conservationists are turning to the NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat satellites to help bolster their efforts to preserve their forest homes. "Chimpanzees are in crisis," said Lilian Pintea, a remote sensing specialist and vice president of…

Forests and Environmental Values Forestry is a profession related to resource management that is primarily about the art and science of creating, maintaining, using, and protecting the forest and its resources. The usefulness of the forest is vast, and its value in the world’s societies can be quite large. The people of the world value forests for their economic value primarily, for the forest provides important resources such as timber, medicines, and ecotourism revenue. This economic benefit…

The Golden lion tamarin (GLT) was first listed as endangered in 1982 according to the International Union of Conservation (IUCN). After an assessment in 1996, IUCN classified the GLT as critically endangered. In 2003, after conservation efforts, the IUCN re-classified GLTs as endangered. GLTs are listed as a regionally threatened species in the state of Rio de Janeiro and listed in appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (IUCN, 2008). Several conservation…

world. They produce vital oxygen and provide homes for people and wildlife animals. Plus many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in forests and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits forests like food, fresh water, clothing and shelter. Also if we don’t have any trees left then we will be in bad situations, so there would be know oxygen and mostly every air breathing living thing would eventually die. There are also environmental groups that have concern about…