ECOSTEM SERVICES

Question 1

HWO ARE ECOSYSTEMS BEING LOST TO

Answer 1

AGRICULUTRLE
FISH FARMING
POLLUTION
OVER EXPLOTATION

Question 2

WAYS TO TAKLE HOW ECOSYTEMS ARE BEING LOST

Answer 2

THROUGH ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - “The benefits provided by ecosystems that contribute to making human life both possible and worth living.”(UKNEA, 2011)

Question 3

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL BEING IS BASED UPON WHAT NATURAL SYSTEMS PROVIDE FOR US.

Answer 3

100%

Question 4

wHAT had the millennium ecosystem assessment

Answer 4

60% of global ecosystems services are being degraded or used unsustaibily.

Question 5

what are essential goods that ecosystems provide to humans

Answer 5

food raw materials clean fresh water

Question 6

what cultural services does green spaces provide

Answer 6

recreation physical and mental health
toursim
spirtuiality and a sense of place

Question 7

what tourist benefits does the green spaces provide for US economy

Answer 7

In 2008 global earnings from tourism summed up to US$ 944 billion

Question 8

what else do ecosystem services help with - physical

Answer 8

local climate and air quality
waste water treatment
pollination

Question 9

and example of regulatory ecosystem services is forests

Answer 9

these store 50% of global terrestrial carbon
forests help regulate global climate

Question 10

what was the annual investment required to maintain forest cover

Answer 10

USA 45 billion.

Question 11

what is deforestation primarily driven by

Answer 11

what we eat in the industrialised and urban world