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Details two ways your country or local government could address and stop those environmental threats.
In this situation what the government has to do and not just
the government also the people living in this Biome are:
Create a network in the population living in this area. The best way to maintain rainforests is to support and empower the people who are connected to these ecosystems and who depend on them most. Forest dependent communities are the most knowledgeable and the most invested when it comes to the fate of forests. Given the chance, rainforest communities tend to be a forest’s strongest and most reliable defender.
From food and medicine to sustainable agroforestry and small scale harvesting of forest products, forest dependent communities often know how to draw what they need from the forests without destroying them in the process. Stay in contact with the communities and local organizations closest to the forest destruction we are seeking to stop.
These relationships are invaluable to ensure the work we do at the national and international level is aligned with and mutually supportive of the efforts of those on the frontlines.
The second solutions I think it can be
helpful for maintain sustainability between the people and the forest is to
provide training and create awareness in those people. Because the government
can create a law where don’t allow people to hunt in the Rio Platano Biosphere,
bet those lows just are write in papers and people don’t make it happen. So that
it’s not a good solution for these problems that are carrying with our entire
environmental heritage.
Another thing the government can do is create more
jobs. This will help the community to have sustainability with the forest.
Because if they don’t have jobs, they don’t going to have money to support
their families and the only solution they can find is to go and try to find
food to take home for their families, and where is the food? The animals living
in the forest it’s free they don’t have to pay for that. That became a serious
problem for the entire environment and allows the animals to disappear.
In
conclusion the best way to stop that environmental threat is to create a
network in the communities living in this area, create awareness by training
the people and create jobs for families to support their necessities.
List and describe environmental threats to your home biome caused by human disturbance. What are they? What cause it? Where are they the worst? How do they impact the environment? (Biotic or abiotic)
RÃo Plátano Biosphere Reserve
The RÃo
Plátano Biosphere Reserve is 5,250 km² of preserved land in the La Mosquitia region on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Most of the land runs along the RÃo Plátano. The reserve has a number of endangered species and some
of Honduras largest sections of forest. It has been a World Heritage site and
biosphere reserve since 1982. The reserve is part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor that stretches from
Mexico southwards trough Central America.
Currently
there are threats to the conservation of the reserve which include illegal
hunting, logging and clearing of land to graze cattle. Recent rafting
expeditions from the Rio Platano headwaters through all three zones of the
reserve (cultural, buffer and core) have documented cattle grazing in the core
zone, commercial fishing and hunting camps along the river and clear cutting of
forest near Las Marias.
The
reserve is home for more than 2,000 indigenous people and a growing number of
migrant inhabitants. The population
includes four very different and unique cultural groups: Miskito, Pech, Garifunas,
and the ladino.
The smaller groups, the Pech, Garifunas, and Miskito inhabitants live mostly in
the north, alongside the river. These people have a variety of rights to the
land and mostly use the land for agriculture. The smaller-scale agriculture of
the Pech is easily made sustainable. Many of the largest group, the ladino,
entered the reserve from the south. Conflict over land rights is a prominent
source of conflict between ethnic groups. Current conflict over land rights
involve non native peoples invading and threatening indigenous land owners
forcing them from their historical lands.
In
my own personal opinion this is affection the biotic and abiotic organisms
located in this region. Why? Because people living in there using the land for
agricultural purpose, and they are using pesticides and herbicides, those are
causing such harm to the soil, water and also the animals that are living and
eating in this environment which is their habitat.
The
most worse I think is the illegal hunting the animals that live in this
habitat. Those animals like the deer are starting to disappear and that is not
good, because those animals are the beauty of the Rio Platano Biosphere
reserve. And not just that people is logging the forest to make money or people
use it to prepare their meals.
But
the good news is that the reserve’s conservation plan also aims to integrate
local inhabitants into their environment via sustainable agricultural
practices. Indigenous populations play a large part into the success of the
conservation plan, both inside the reservation and outside the reservation in
the buffer zones.
Three peer-review articles about the management of the Ecosystems in Honduras
Sustainable dive tourism: Social and environmental
impacts — the case of Roatan, Honduras
In
this article the only disadvantage is that you have to pay to get all the
information but according with abstract, this article is bout: The strong
reliance on healthy and attractive coral reefs, the tourism sector on Roatan is
particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This article examines
past and current development paths and management efforts on Roatan and
proposes avenues in order to achieve sustainable development of the tourism
sector while safeguarding ecosystem quality. This has a coastal zone management,
a whole ecosystem approach and the recognition of the importance of social
aspects for the success of management tools such as marine protected areas can
greatly contribute to that goal.
Doiron Sébastien and wiesenberger Sebastian.2014. Sustainable dive tourism: Social and environmental
impacts — The case of Roatan, Honduras. [Internet article][3/14/14]. Available
from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211973613000731?np=y).
Consistency
and inconsistency in multispecies population network dynamics of coral reef
Ecosystems
This
article is about an experiment by marine ecology progress series. This consist Different
marine species and their larvae have characteristics that can expand or
contract their potential dispersal, which can add complexity to the management
of species assemblages. The methodology used to investigate the network
dynamics of larval dis-persal in the Caribbean; they used a multi-scale
bio-physical model, the Connectivity Modeling System. According to Resource
managers, therefore, are often concerned with the sources of larvae coming into
their managed areas, and productive larval sources are generally considered
good candidates for protection in Honduras coral reef.
Holstein Daniel M, Paris Claire B. Mumby Peter J. 2014.Consistency
and inconsistency in multispecies population network dynamics of coral reef ecosystems.
[Internet Article][3/14/14]. Available from: http://www.int-res.com/articles/feature/m499p001.pdf
Local agro-ecological knowledge and its relationship
to farmers’ pest management decision making in rural Honduras
This article talks about a research doe in rural communities in
Honduras. Experience has shown that to
ensure IPM adoption, the complexities of local agro-production systems and
context-specific folk knowledge need to be appreciated. The research explored
the linkages between farmer knowledge, pest management decision making, and
ecological attributes of subsistence maize agriculture. They report a case
study from four rural communities in the highlands of southeast Honduras.
Communities were typified by their agro-environments, IPM training history, and
levels of infestation by a key maize pest, the fall armyworm (Spodoptera
frugiperda Smith). Farmers who were knowledgeable about biological
control were also familiar with a larger variety of pest management
alternatives than uninformed farmers. Management options covered a wide range
of curative techniques, including conservation biological control. Farmers who
relied on insecticides to manage pest outbreaks knew less about biological
control and pesticide alternatives.
Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Robert J.
O’Neil. September 2007. Local agro-ecological knowledge and its relationship
to farmers’ pest management decision making in rural Honduras. [Internet
article][3/15/14]. Available from: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-007-9068-y
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