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