Scribd
Upload
17 views1 page

Perez, Candy Claire B. Bsn-1C: Activity 1. Identify Common Human Activities That Can Harm Biodiversity Answer

This document discusses human activities that can harm biodiversity and ways to promote its safekeeping. Some biodiversity threats include mowing lawns with chemicals, clear-cutting forests, and over-exploiting natural resources which destroy habitats and favor a few species. To protect biodiversity, the document suggests establishing nature preserves, reducing invasive species, restoring degraded habitats, minimizing climate change through sustainability, and increasing environmental education.

Uploaded by

candy perez
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
17 views1 page

Perez, Candy Claire B. Bsn-1C: Activity 1. Identify Common Human Activities That Can Harm Biodiversity Answer

This document discusses human activities that can harm biodiversity and ways to promote its safekeeping. Some biodiversity threats include mowing lawns with chemicals, clear-cutting forests, and over-exploiting natural resources which destroy habitats and favor a few species. To protect biodiversity, the document suggests establishing nature preserves, reducing invasive species, restoring degraded habitats, minimizing climate change through sustainability, and increasing environmental education.

Uploaded by

candy perez
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

Perez, Candy Claire B.

Bsn-1C
ACTIVITY

1. Identify common human activities that can harm biodiversity

Answer:
Biodiversity is under serious threat as a result of human activities. The main dangers worldwide are
population growth and resource consumption, climate change and global warming, habitat conversion
and urbanisation, invasive alien species, over-exploitation of natural resources and environmental
degradation.

A) Mowing and spraying lawns with chemicals, and clear-cutting and possible replanting. Mowing
lawns puts the entire plot of land back to the primary stage, and applying pesticides or fertilizers
favours the very few species we want in our lawns. That effects heavily the food that’s available
for animals (both plants and residing animals that depend on the plants for food, shelter, etc.),
as for clear-cutting, the entire process favours very few tree species (both in planted and
unplanted sites), and the other plants and animals that live in association with them. Clear-
cutting can be done in a way that minimizes environmental site damage, but generally that’s not
the case. Soils lose their cover and nutrients after rains due to almost total removal of over story
(“over story zero”), which affects the entire structure of the site and it’s biodynamic. Some
species that benefit from increases in edges may profit in the short term (like deer), but
increased edges will in most cases effect every other species as well (plants, fungi, animals,
microbiological organisms).

2. Cite ways on what you think would promote safekeeping of biodiversity

Answer:
#1 Government legislation

#2 Nature preserves

#3 reducing amount of invasive species

#4 Habitat restorations

#5 Reduce climate change

#6 Sustainable living

#7 Educations

You might also like