Assignment: How you can relate to biodiversity and draw a diagram and explain.
After reading this module I found that the project I am currently working on and the module are discussing similar devastation, biodiversity hotspots and deforestation. The project I am working on mentions the increasing rate the rain forest is declining due to deforestation as a result of agriculture for palm oil. I would consider the rain forests of Malaysia and Indonesia a biodiversity hot spot since the habitat loss is due to human activity. The orangutans in Indonesia are now critically endangered due to palm oil production and illegal trade.
In my personal life I do not physically see the devastation of the biodiversity hot spots but I see deforestation on a small scale. The type of deforestation I see on a daily basis is the tearing down of area forests to make use for more subdivisions for the ever rising human population in our area.
I chose to start my diagram with biodiversity at the top because it’s what makes this world live and thrive. I wanted to start with the positive and slowly trickle my way down to show how humans, in the end, negatively affect biodiversity. The right side of my diagram shows some of the components that makes up biodiversity and the right side gives examples of the destruction to biodiversity. They both meet at agriculture which is one cause for deforestation and it all comes together at humans because we are the reason for the need for agriculture and for deforestation.
Salutations! My name is Sara Getson. Here is a link to my blog post http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/04/10/biodiversity-in-the-most-interesting-of-places-sara-getson/.
Your post caught my eye because of the systems diagram. Although I did not choose to make one for my blog, I do enjoy looking at them and organizing them. Yours was very easy to follow and I also thought that you chose an interesting topic to write about. I think that it is very important that we know about things like this that are happening in the world even if they do not affect us directly, because they may in the future. With increased globalization, comes increased responsibility and the obligation to understand what is going on in the world outside of our own environment. Nice post!
Hi, Tenaya. After reading your entry, I found what you concluded about biodiversity very interesting. I liked how you brought the production of palm oil into the module assignment. I really had no idea that one product could have such large issues, such as destroying orangutan populations. I also focused on the loss of biodiversity in my project, but in my hometown on a smaller scale.
You can read what I said in my blog post below.
http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/04/10/biodiversity-of-westfield/