NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES REANN McNEARY AND DONOVAN T. SMALLS

NATIONAL PARKS  OVER 1,100 NATIONAL PARKS  THREATENED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES

National Parks  Developing (1% park protection)  Less money/invaders  Too small to sustain large species

National Parks in U.S.  National Park System (est.1912)  BIGGEST ISSUE: Popularity  Park rangers (better paying jobs)  Nonnative species  (gray wolf) Yellowstone  Air pollution

Solutions  Increase funds for park repairs  Limit number of visitors  Increase number and pay of park rangers  Encourage volunteers to give visitors lectures and tours

Nature Reserves  Protect more land (biodiversity)  88% land protect  12% protected in ice/desert

Taking Sides for Conservation  Most conserved areas contain valuable resources  It sustains all life and economies and serves as a center of future evolution

COSTA RICA  Large proportion of land to conservation  Pays landowners to restore tree coverage  Reduced deforestation  GOAL: to make sustaining forest profitable “SUPERPOWER OF BIODIVERSITY”

The Nature Conservancy  Land conservation through private action  Private donations  Maintain funds for buying pieces of land or wetland threatened by development or human act.

Biosphere Reserves  Three zones  Core zone (ecosystem)  Buffer zone (protects core)  Transition zone (surrounds inner buffer)  Too Little funding (a lot to manage)

Wilderness  Land legally set aside  Prevent human activity  Should contain (1,500) square miles  Benefits  Beauty of nature  Away from noise and stress  Enjoy nature  Provides home for animals to be free

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