The Effects Of Human Activities On The Health Of An Ecosystem

Three of the ecosystem that I am benefiting from are pollination, nitrogen cycle and the safety of our drinking and cooking water. Pollination is a process that is mostly carry out by bees but the wind also plays a role in this process. There is much talk about the the honey bees becoming extinct. We can import bees in but this will not be very cost effective. There will be a great monetary cost to import the bees here. Also, the farmer has to be paid for the upkeep of the bee hives and it will require more manpower. This will have a great impact on our food supply. Most of our fruits and vegetables are produced due to the process.

Before we started researching this project we didn’t know how important bees are to our environment. In general, we can help solve this problem in our environment by limiting the use of pesticides. Creating regulations and laws limiting and controlling the use of neonicotinoid and coumaphos pesticides would greatly help the bees population. We can also reward farmers for practices that help wild bee populations thrive, such as leaving habitat for bees in their surrounding fields, alternating crops so bees have food all year long, and not using harmful

By eating more foods from community based farms, will reduce pollution and improve the air quality (A) resulting from semi-trucks delivering fewer shipments. Having less polluted air will tremendously improve the environment by reducing the greenhouse gases that are emitted. Although those who oppose this change, claim that consuming home-grown products still can utilize the same amount of fuel (C). For example, a local farmer who sells fifty apples at a stall fifty miles from his farm uses the same “amount of fuel per apple” as a foreign company shipping two-thousand apples over two-thousand miles to a store (C). While this debate is compelling, in the long run, purchasing and consuming regionally-produced foods will have a greater impact in reducing pollution rather than solely buying imported foods. This is because companies will not have to import the same amount of food as often, if everyone joins the campaign by eating locally. Therefore, by switching to this lifestyle, the environment will notably

Did you know that in 1990 there were only 2,500 Hyacinth Macaws left living in the will. In our paper we will discuss how humans affect the rainforest, endangered hyacinth macaws, and how we can prevent humans from destroying rainforests.

The economic worth of global food production supported by animal pollination is at a whopping $265 billion dollars. Bee’s themselves are responsible for the harvest of crops such as nuts, melons and berries, and plays varying roles in the production of citrus fruits, apples, onions, broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, courgettes, peppers, aubergines, avocados, cucumbers, coconuts, tomatoes and broad beans, as well as coffee and cocoa. ( Yes, that’s right without bee’s you wouldn’t be able to relax to/enjoy the sweet taste of, of a hot cup of chocolate after a long winter day). but with bee’s in consistent decline what does this mean for a growing population. Fewer bee’s would mean most likely result in higher prices for fruits, and vegetables. Less food available for mass consumption. So what can we do? In order to reverse the damage done to our bee populations, it is important that we now as a community make steps to encourage ecologically safe farming practices. That means start grocery shopping regionally, and locally and when the holiday/winter season is over and spring rolls around reduce the everyday use of pesticides, and other stuff while

Bee populations are declining at an alarming rate all around the world, and daily life without bees would be detrimental. Without the bees around to help pollinate our food, 30 percent of which is grown using bees, there is an incredibly high chance that we would starve. “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.” (Albert Einstein) By using harmful pesticides in our agriculture, and the excessive use of high fructose corn syrup, we are killing the bees at an alarming rate. One of every three bites of food rely on pollination for a profitable harvest. We must acknowledge everything that the bees provide for humans, then ban pesticides that hard bees, move away from industrial agriculture and put our focus

Bees pollinate one third of the world’s food, they do this by landing on a plant once on the plant the pollen is unknowingly transferred on the bee’s feet and between plants. If bees don’t pollinate it will put millions of farmers and beekeepers out of business, this will put a strain on the economic growth of Australia as the Australian economy is highly dependent upon agricultural exports.

“The honey bee is a historic insect that has been living for over 100 million years.” Recently the bee population has been suffering and decreasing dramatically. Large amounts of crops require pollination from bees in order to produce food. If the honey bee population keeps decreasing there will be a dramatic drop in foods and goods. Society appears to not notice or care, “it will take a dramatic drop in wanted goods and popular foods to scare people into actually caring about the honey bees.”

Another research, conducted by Simon Potts, is also critical about the disappearance of bees, claiming that they are responsible for 80% of the fruits pollination and 75% of the crops around the world and that a possible extinction is dangerous because pollination would totally rely on butterflies. However, the latter states that there are no clear studies on the impact of pollination on crop yields so it is not possible to claim that crops growth will become unsustainable if there ever is an extinction. He finally qualified the economic value of bee’s pollination, by estimating their production to 253 billion of euros. Therefore, an extinction would lead to a global market crash and influence the economy of many countries that rely on agriculture as a predominant economic activity. Potts’ work allows understanding that the current honeybee crisis is not only dangerous for mankind because of its environmental consequences, but also for the economic impact that would occur.

One issue that nobody pays attention to is, bees. Most people believe that bees are killers and horrible bugs, but what they don’t know is that without bees, there are less and less food. Although they are dangerous, they’re no harm unless they feel harm. This world doesn’t realize that without bees, there won’t be anymore foods from almonds to strawberries. Some possible solutions to this problem are reducing the amount of pesticides, grow plants, buy local raw honey, protect pollinators, and understand that bees aren’t there to hurt you.

Eating an apple or smelling flowers for many people around the world is a normal occasion. Walking through the woods, seeing trees and fruits, of all kinds is something people do not think much about. There are future causes that could disturb the regular thought about nature for people all around the world. Plants and animals could become scarce and earth could be changed forever. This possible worldwide problem could be caused by the decreasing amount of bees. Bees live all across the world, some maintained by beekeepers and some wild are wild bees. They live and work together and each type of bee has its own job to keep the well being in a hive. On average, there are roughly 40,000 to 60,000 honeybees in a single hive (Web). Naturally a

The issue of protecting the colonies of honeybees is important to people because of the benefit the bees have for the earth and majority of animals living on it, including humans. A single bee colony can pollinate over 300 million flowers a day(Save the Bees); and in the past decade over 40% of bee colonies have suffered from colony collapse disorder(List of Foods); a dramatic reduction that will continue and become more apparent unless something starts being done about it. Education and action into the rise of the decline of bees is important as honey bees are responsible for the pollination of hundreds of flowers, many of which produce the fruits and vegetables we eat to survive. The advertisement can be shown in magazines, newspapers, or

As well as learning the various causes of CCD, one must also understand the importance of bees, in terms of pollination, in order to better grasp the gravity of the bee decline. Arguably, one of the most important aspects of the bee is its ability to quickly and efficiently pollinate plants. One might argue that the bee decline isn’t as great a problem as it’s made out to be, simply because there are other species of pollinators and methods of pollination. Though this argument is partially true, it doesn’t take into account just how much of the world’s wild plants and commercially-grown food crops are pollinated by the bee alone. According to Priesnitz, “honeybees are the most effective pollinators in the world and [are] responsible for pollinating eighty percent of all food crops” (Priesnitz). As one might infer from this, the impact the bee has on the world, in terms of pollination, is immense. This is primarily due to the bee’s ability to quickly and efficiently pollinate various wild plants and food crops. To help further grasp the bee’s impact on the pollination of the world’s crops, one can view the amount of money generated by crops that were pollinated by bees.

“The UN along with other agencies reported that not only did livestock play a major role in global warming, it is also the leading cause of resource consumption and environmental degradation destroying the planet today.” (Andersen & Kuhn, 2014). It is important, then, to consider the effects of animal agriculture on the environment. This essay will argue that animal agriculture is harmful to the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, water- and land use, and that policies in the form of subsidizing plant foods, altering the Canada Food Guide, and creating plant based nutrition coaching and support groups should be enacted to solve these problems. The first section of this paper will outline scholarly literature on the effects of animal agriculture on the environment. This paper will then discuss why a plant based diet is also suitable for optimal health. Finally, this essay will conclude with an overview of the various social policies that must be executed to solve these environmental issues.

The amount of earth’s total soil carbon in wetlands is between 20 and 30% of the approximated 1500pg of the global soil carbon and there is a substantial amount of carbon storage in soils as it accommodates three times more carbon in terrestrial ecosystems than the vegetation it supports (Post et al., 1982). Plants in coastal ecosystems represent a large sink of carbon because they have the ability to sequester carbon from both internal and external carbon sources (Houghton et al 1999), additionally, they store more blue carbon in comparison with rainforest (Chambers et al 2001).