Water Conservation Water is essential to Earth. We need it to cook‚ bathe‚ provide power‚ control fire‚ and last but not least‚ we need it to live! Therefore‚ it is very important to human survival. When 70% of Earth is made up of water‚ you would think that we have plenty of water for our needs. But really‚ about 97% of that water is made up of ocean. We cannot use this water because it is too saline for our needs. Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh‚ and 2% of that supply is frozen
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most neglected commodity on the earth. Shifting cultivation on the hill slopes‚ non-adoption of soil conservation techniques‚ and over exploitation of land for crop production due to population stress‚ leads to enormous soil erosion. It will take hundreds of years to form an inch of soil‚ but in no time it gets washed away down the slope due to erosion. SOIL CONSERVATION Soil Conservation is the process by which the loss of soil is checked‚ reducing the velocity of run-off through erosion
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Ferdinand Porsche[2] (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He was best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric)‚ the Volkswagen Beetle‚ and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK‚ as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles. Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen‚ which was the first race car with mid-engine‚ rear-wheel drive layout. Known in business circles as the "great engineer"‚[3] he made a number
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Energy Conservation - Mitigation Strategies and Solutions Final Project Sherry Howard Axia College of University of Phoenix As the world continues to grow and third world countries continue to industrialize‚ energy consumption has become a growing concern. Every aspect of our daily routines require the use of some sort of energy‚ if it is gas for transportation‚ electricity to heat our homes or a combination used in manufacturing of goods. The majority of energy is generated from nonrenewable
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has been accorded the status of protected areas. Wildlife and forests are state subjects under a single administration setup i.e.‚ Forest Department of each State. The role of the Central Government 9 meaning the Government of India) is mainly advisory. Two developments have had a greater bearing on the status of wildlife conservation in different states. The first was the of Wildlife (Protection) Act‚ 1972 as a unified piece of legislation. The legislation interalia requires the creation of the post
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Wildlife Conservation Efforts in India Introduction The Indian subcontinent boasts of serving as the natural habitat of a large and varied wildlife. The sub-continent with it’s varied geographical spread from the Himalayas in the north to the Cauvery basin in the south and the Kutch region in the west to the plains of Assam in East present a diverse range of environmental conditions for some of the most magnificent as well as the rarest wildlife species of the world in India to exist. The beauty
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Wildlife Conservation Introduction Favoured with a unique geographical location and varied landforms‚ India is home to about one third of known life forms in the world. There are over 500 species of mammals and 2060 species of birds that are truly Indian. Rapid growth of human and livestock population since the turn of the century and the consequent pressure on land due to development have taken an increasingly heavy toll on the country wilderness. One of the major threats facing wildlife is the
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------------------------------------------------- Wildlife conservation Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting endangered plant and animal speciesand their habitats. Among the goals of wildlife conservation are to ensure that nature will be around for future generations to enjoy and to recognize the importance of wildlife andwilderness lands to humans.[1] Many nations are government agencies dedicated to wildlife conservation‚ which help to implement policies designed to protect wildlife
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Conservation refers to the idea that "certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same"‚ despite their perceptual differences (Berk‚ 2009). In Piaget’s theory on conservation‚ children gradually acquire various conservation abilities‚ such as understanding the conservation of numbers‚ weight‚ and volume to name a few. Piaget asserts that until they successfully acquire these abilities‚ they have no real understanding that quantity remains unchanged despite perceptual changes of the objects
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and collapse of basic wildlife protection capacity during the last decade. This “mission-drift” has resulted from several causes: lack of political will‚ deterioration in the quality of forest administration‚ and the influence of international conservation paradigms that blindly promote “sustainable use” as a solution‚ while failing to recognize the overexploited status of the forest resources targeted for such use. What‚ in your opinion‚ are the most urgent threats to wildlife? By far the
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