Human Activities

What is a Habitat Restoration Project?

• Are projects that have a end goal. These goals are aiming to restore an environment that has been damaged from various of different reasons.

• Placing invasive species in a local lake.

• Clearing fields for agriculture.

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What is Species Preservation?

• Poaching of endangered species

• Planting native trees

• preservation and protection of animals, plants, and their habitats

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What is a Nature Conservation Group?

• Groups that make money to help tourism in an are

• The Nature Conservancy works with local communities, businesses, and individuals to protect over 100 million acres of land around the world.

• Group of tree huggers

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Are the impacts of Hunting and Fishing always negative?

• True

• False

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What is Ecotourism?

• Going to the beach and looking at the seashells

• tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, intended to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.

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What is an All Terrain Vehicle?

• Someone who hikes in all terrain

• Full sized SUV with 4 wheel drive

• motorized off-highway vehicle designed to travel on four low-pressure or non-pneumatic tires, having a seat designed to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control

What is small water craft?

• A buoy to see in the middle of an ocean

• A watercraft or waterborne vessel that is a conveyance for travel across or under water, such as a boat, ship, yacht, hovercraft or submarine.

  
  

• A place to dock your boat

How can small water craft hurt the environment?

• Oils, paints, and other cleaners that are used on boats may spill into the water.

• Being able to pick up plastic from the side from the boat

• Pollution run off when it rains

What does Ecotourism try and accomplish?

• Make as much money as possible

• Minimize physical, social, behavioral, and psychological impacts, while exploring nature.

• Bring tourists to more exotic places.

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How can hunting and fishing help the environment?

• Raising money for the government through hunting and fishing licenses

• Declining a species to very low numbers

• Help keep a specific species at healthy numbers

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