Friday, November 27, 2015

What can be done to improve the human impacts on Boreal Forests?

In order to preserve the boreal forests scattered throughout Canada, the government needs to strengthen their control and regulation over activities allowed within the forests and citizens need to start recognizing the importance of maintaining such ecosystems for more than just recreational use. Logging, mining, oil and gas development are the largest threats to Canada’s boreal forests so in order to improve human impact, activities like these must be stopped or restricted. By removing all industrial pursuits in the parks the destruction of natural ecosystems will be slowed. Creating borders for tourists and recreational activities so as to prevent the expansion of damage randomly throughout will make it easier for park conservationists to tell which areas are healthy and which are not. Wildlife also has to be connected in order to avoid extinction of species when blocked off with boundaries formed by roads, tourists routes, and industrial movement.  Lastly, by creating more parks to preserve more land from private exploitation and increasing funding for protection of parks, human impact will subsequently improve.

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