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Friday, January 14, 2011

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG..!!!

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Greetings..!!!!
We're the students of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities UKM.
This blog is our project for English for Social Science course.

We hope that this blog will brings u a lot of informations on controversial issues in wildlife protection.
Sooo....hope u will enjoy it....!!!

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Wildlife In Context

Conservation- With respect to resources such as energy, refers to changing our patterns of use or simply getting by with less. In a pragmatic sense the term means adjusting our needs to minimize the use of a particular resource, such as energy.

Crude oil- Naturally occurring petroleum, normally pumped from wells in oil fields. Refinement of crude oil produces most of the petroleum products we use today.

Deforestation- Harvesting trees for commercial and other uses and burning forest to convert lands to agricultural purposes.

Ecosystem- An ecological community and its local, nonbiological community. An ecosystem is the minimum system that includes and sustains life. It must include at least an autotroph, a decomposer, a liquid medium, a source and sink of energy, and all the chemical elements required by the autotroph and the decomposer

Ecological community- this term has two meanings. 1) A conceptual or functional meaning: a set of interacting species that occur in the same place (sometimes extended to mean a set that interacts in way to sustain life). 2) An operational meaning: a set of species found in an area, whether or not they are interacting.

Ecosystem effect- Effects that result from interactions among different species, effects of species on chemical elements in their environment, and conditions of environment.

Ecological economics- Study and evaluation of relations between humans and the economy with emphasis on long term health of ecosystems and sustainability

Ecology- The science of the study of the relationships between living things and their environment

Environment- All factors (living and non-living) that actually affect an individual organism or population at any point in the life cycle. Environment is also sometimes used to denote a certain set of circumstances surrounding a particular occurrence (environments of deposition, for example)

Environment ethics- A school, or theory, in philosophy that deals with the ethical value of the environment, including especially the right of nonhuman objects and system in the environment, for example, trees and ecosystems.

Food Chain-The linkage of who feeds on whom.

Habitat-Where an individual, population, or species exists or can exists.

Botkin, Keller. 2003. Environmental Science, Earth as a living planet 4th Edition. Wiley & Sons INC.

10 Easy things you can do at home to protect endangered species

10) Protect wildlife habitat
Perhaps the greatest threat that faces many species is the widespread destruction of habitat. Scientists tell us the best way to protect endangered species is to protect the special places where they live. Wildlife must have places to find food, shelter and raise their young. Logging, oil and gas drilling, over-grazing and development all result habitat destruction. Endangered species habitat should be protected and these impacts minimized.

By protecting habitat, entire communities of animals and plants can be protected together. Parks, wildlife refuges, and other open space should be protected near your community. Open space also provides us with great places to visit and enjoy. Support wildlife habitat and open space protection in your community. When you are buying a house, consider your impact on wildlife habitat.

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