Biopiracy
Biopiracy is a term used to describe using the knowledge of the native people in developing countries to discover compounds for use in developed countries.
Disturbance
The disturbance is a term used to describe a discrete event that disrupts an ecosystem or community, natural disturbances such as fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, and floods.
Tragedy of the Commons
The tragedy of the Commons, the notion, explicated by Garrett Hardin, that though we live in a Commons, individuals will practice selfish behaviours that are not in the common good and lead to overexploitation of resources.
Endangered forest
Endangered forests are the most valuable forests on the globe, forests that would be irreparably harmed by industrial resource extraction. In practical terms, this means these forests are “no go” and “no buy” woods.
Deforestation illustration
DEFORESTATION ILLUSTRATION
Deforestation
Deforestation is large-scale cutting of trees from a forested area, leaving bare areas susceptible to erosion.
Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the art or science of telling something about an object without touching it (reconnaissance at a distance) It includes various methods of obtaining pictures or other forms of electromagnetic records of the Earth’s surface from a distance and the treatment and processing of the picture data.
Reforestation
Reforestation is a conversion of non-forested land to forested land by direct human-induced conversion, seeding or planting trees of natural sources.
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