Conservation Flashcards
What is the 7 questions about your ecological footprint?
1.How often do you eat animal based products?
2.How much of the food you eat is processed, packaged and imported?
3.How do u travel?
4.How many people live in your household?
- What is the size of you home?
6.Which housing best describes your home?
7.Do you have electricity in you home?
What is the average ecological footprint in canada?
8.8 global hectares per person
Issues with the ecological footprint?
doesn’t account for how many kids are in family
Top 3 country’s on CO2 emissions per country?
China, US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, Canada
What and when was the Kyoto Protocal?
in 1997
the objective was to reduce greenhouse gases
-195 countries signed
Canada withdrew in the second protocal Doha amendment in 2012
What and when is COP27?
UNited nations climate change conference
2022
The six protected areas in IUCN(international Union for Conservation of Nature and natural resources)
- Strict nature reserve area=ecological reserve
- National and Provinvial Parks
3.National monument- World Heritage sites
4.Habitat/species management areas=introduced species removal
5.Protected landscape/seascape=Orca pass international Stewardship area
- Managed resource protected area-Crown land
Top countries with protected area?
Slovakia,Greenland, Kiribati
Brazil-29%
Ecuador-22%
US-13%
Canada-11%
Only ___percent of low-elevation old growth is protected
3
ONe hundred sixty-seven new protected ares, tota;long over 2.7 million hectares have been created since 1992. Over ___of this are is subalpine of alpine
60%
Major IUCN concerns?
- Paper parks-park names exist on maps but no enforcements
- Design shortcomings-parks are in terrible places not to protect biodiversity but money ex. alpines
And parks are two small-causes fragmentation
3.Internal threats- poaching, fires, invasive species, highways
4.External threats-outside the influence of management ex.dams, climate change, invasive species, biocides
5.Trans international boundary effects-migration corridors
6.Ineffective marine protection
Yellowstone poaching ___violations/y
___detection
5000
1:20
In the Banff from1981-2001 how many large mammals were killed on highways?
4051
-188 large carnivores
-3863 deer,elk etc.
From 1970-1980 there was international implementation of marine area that excluded commercial extraction of fish, what were the benefits?
1)increase abundance of fish
2)increased presence of larger fish
3)increased species diversity
4)recovery of competitors, biodiversity and ecosystem processes
