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11-20 of 40 for the Category : Botanical and the Subcategory : Botanical - GeneralDeforestation
( Article Type: Explanation )
The world’s forests, both temperate and tropical, are under enormous pressures from disease (often as a result of air pollution, notably from acid rain), felling for timber needs, clearing for agriculture, or loss under reservoirs through the dammi
Read more about DeforestationEco-Logic
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The concept of Eco-Logic refers to the logic and perspective that we gain once one we fully recognise and acknowledge the fact that we humans are not separate from the rest of nature - and that we are completely dependent on the Earth's eco-system
Read more about Eco-LogicEconomics of the Environment
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The biggest threat to the realisation of the sustainable development ideal is not in determining and understanding how Economics and Ecology as individual systems function, but how they operate as a single embedded system.
Read more about Economics of the EnvironmentEcosphere & Ecosystems
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The ecosphere (also sometimes called the ‘biosphere’) is that part of the Earth’s environment in which living organisms are found. The word is normally used to include the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere (i.e. land, air and water that s
Read more about Ecosphere & EcosystemsEndangered & Threatened Species
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Red Data Books and Lists are IUCN (World Conservation Union), Species Survival Commission (SSC) products and were initiated in 1963 by Sir Peter Scott as a means of preventing extinction through an easily understood method of identifying, documen
Read more about Endangered & Threatened SpeciesExtinction
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A natural part of the evolutionary process is extinction, where species disappear owing to changes in their living conditions, which they are unable to survive. In recent times, however, the rate of extinction has increased dramatically as a result o
Read more about ExtinctionFire
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Every year in South Africa wild fires destroy thousands of hectares of agricultural land, commercial plantations and buildings, affecting the lives and livelihoods of many. While most fires are started through human negligence, some are part of the n
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Forestry can be split into two different types of management. The first type relates to indigenous forestry and involves the management and utilisation of natural indigenous forests. The second refers to plantation forestry, which requires a differen
Read more about ForestryGenetic Modification ~ The 'Anti' Position
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In South Africa, GMOs are controversial (scientifically, economically and socially) as they are globally, in both industrialised economies and in developing countries.
Read more about Genetic Modification ~ The 'Anti' PositionGenetic Modification ~ The 'Pro' Position
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Genetically modified (GM) crops are those in which genes from another species have been inserted to express a particular trait, which the original crop lacked.
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