10 URBAN ENVIRONMENT Suneel Pandey‚ Shaleen Singhal‚ Pragya Jaswal‚ and Manraj Guliani Great cities are planned and grow without any regard for the fact that they are parasites on the countryside‚ which must somehow supply food‚ water‚ air‚ and degrade huge quantities of wastes. —Eugene Odum Six to seven million people are added annually to urban India. At the beginning of this millennium‚ 285 million Indians lived in its nearly 4400 towns and cities (Census 2001)
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Effects of Pollution 1. Environment Degradation : Environment is the first casualty for increase in pollution weather in air or water. The increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere leads to smog which can restrict sunlight from reaching the earth. Thus‚ preventing plants in the process of photosynthesis. Gases like Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide can cause acid rain. Water pollution in terms of Oil spill may lead to death of several wildlife species. 2. Human Health : The decrease in quality
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MATRICULATION COLLEGE SCIENCE INFORMATIC WS011 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY GROUP MEMBER: 1. ADRIAN HO IK LIANG (MS0915542624) 2. MOHD. TARHAMIZI BIN ABD HAMID ( MS0915515816) 3. ZURINAH BINTI PAKEE ( MS0915517005) 4. DESMOND ANAK BONNIK (MS0915514779) 5. ELMA LIM ( MS0915514865) LECTURER ’S NAME: MR. SYED NASIR BIN SYED AHMAD Content Title INTRODUCTION POTENTIAL ENERGY GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY KINETIC ENERGY PRINCIPLE OF CONSERVATION ENERGY WORK-ENERGY THEROM CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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WILDLIFE Wildlife means all the flora and fauna‚ which are not domesticated by humans. It includes animals‚ plants and microorganisms. The term wild life generally gives the impression of large and ferocious animals living in the jungle or waters such as lions and tigers‚ crocodiles and rhinoceros. Wild life refers to any living organism in its natural habitat. It includes all plants‚ animals and microorganisms other than animals domesticated and cultivated plants. The majestic lion‚ the grateful
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Audra McFarland Mr. Bergmann Sophomore Honors P6 28th September 2016 Conservation What if I were to tell you that your way of life is at stake? If I told you that your casual cruising around town or your habit of just tossing your drink in the trash without dumping it out was causing major harm to our earth‚ would you be concerned? Today‚ our carbon emissions are skyrocketing so alarmingly fast‚ the atmosphere has not been this warm in 66 million years. The excess carbon has caused a five degree
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vision of the TKNP is to “endeavour towards the conservation of the TKNP through the integrated‚ effective and adaptive management of ecological systems‚ cultural heritage‚ and responsible tourism. As aregional partner‚ parks develop and maintain community participation and empowerment” (Strauss and Cowell‚ 2014). In by 1996 it was reported that only 2.82% of this biome was conserved and was therefore regarded
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government in the form of a “Public-private Partnership” (PPP) model under the new nature conservation policy for the construction of columbarium and ecological protection
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DESCRIPTION OF KHADIMNAGAR NATIONAL PARK Khadimnagar National Park ‚ previously known as Khadimnagar Reserve Forest(1957) is consist of 1676.73 acres of area. It was declared as Khadimnagar National Park in 13 May 2006. Khadimnagar National Park is one of the most important protected areas of Bangladesh‚ because of its interesting biodiversity composition. It is a resourceful mixed semi-evergreen and evergreen forest. It comprises floral resources‚ Funal resources‚ NTFPs resources‚ timber resources
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presenting the park in the most favorable light is an important one. Within the park ranger job description‚ park rangers perform a range of duties throughout their careers. These include: • management of the natural habitat using known habitat conservation and restoration techniques • office work that includes analyzing reports and research data • educating the park visitors and local community about the park‚ local wildlife‚ environmental issues and at times‚ controversial issues • creating public
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There is a difference between conservation and preservation. The major difference between the two is conservation is the sensible use of the natural resources by maintaining the sustainability of them for our future generation. In contrast preservation is to maintain nature and our resources in their present state. I actually do not believe that humans can harvest resources in an environmentally friendly way. I feel this way because if our human race were to begin to get resources from our national
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