wildlife ecology

Wildlife Resources - Wild life resources include all animals, which grow and propagate naturally without any sort of human interference. They remain in wild form without any sort of friendly association with man. Invariably they are in forests. Wildlife serves as a resource to m..

Hydroelectric power stations can cause some major problems. Large dams must be built to hold the water before it flows to the turbine. This causes ecological imbalance. At times small pieces of earth get trapped at the bottom of still water in the reservoir. As these deposits build up the..

One need to accept that human intervention has been very much a part of the forest landscape. The government has realized that enforcement of forest laws or policies and punishment of its contraventions, while ignoring the requirements of local people in the management of protected areas cannot be ..

Forest Resources - Forests are the most important resource of our globe. Naturally formed forests are found in such parts of globe - where the factors of plant growth have been ideal for several centuries. For this reason, they are mostly found in regions of high rainfall and regions of high altitu..

>Edaphic resources include alluvial, black soil, red soil, laterite soil, desert soil and problematic soil Forest resources are useful to man in many ways Crop resources include all types of crops - whose cultivation has provided, food, fodder, clothing, industrial products to human beings Aquatic ..

Interrelationship of Population, Environment and Development - As mentioned earlier man's intervention is causing drastic changes in the environmental systems of earth and disturbing its ecological balance. This disturbance gets compounded with the problem of population explosion in the w..

>Biodegradable - The biodegradable wastes are those that can be decomposed. For example, kitchen garbage, animal dung, etc. Non-biodegradable - The non-biodegradable wastes are those that cannot be decomposed and remain as such in the environment. For example, plastics, nuclear wastes, glass, etc. ..

Impact of Misuse of Natural Resources - Natural resources characteristically exhibit two features. They are: 1) Physical limitations 2) Limitations of regeneration / production. Natural physical resources like geophysical, hydro-geological, edaphic, atmospheric resources exhibit physical limitation..