Bio PROJECT
- 1. Management of Natural Resources made by- Sushmitha Balamurugan Shrishti Singh
- 2. What are natural resources? • Materials that come from the Earth • Something useful humans need to survive
- 3. NON RENEWABLE • Natural resources found in the ground • Only a certain amount • Once they are gone they cannot be made or grown again. Coal Oil
- 4. Natural Resources that CANNOT be replaced • Coal-used for electricity • Oil- (crude oil) • Used for gasoline so cars, planes and trains can run.
- 5. RENEWABLE • Can be grown or made again • Never run out if we take care of them • Keeping Earth clean helps protect these resources Trees Plants Animals Air Sunlight Water
- 6. Why to manage our resources…? • The resources on the Earth are limited • Preventing from exploitation for short term gains • All people can benefit from the development of the resources
- 7. Flora and fauna • A large area of land on which trees and other plants grow naturally is called a forest. • The wild animals and birds which live in a forest, are called wildlife.
- 8. Chipko Andolan (Hug the trees movement) • Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand • when a group of peasant women in Reni village, acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department.
- 9. Water for all Water: basic necessity of all forms of life… Rain is a very important source of water….
- 10. Shortage of water Despite of good rains we are not able to meet the demands of water Lack of sufficient vegetation cover on ground pollution, changing lifestyle and population HYV seeds require more water for irrigation
- 11. GANGA ACTION PLAN • The Ganga Action Plan or GAP was a program launched by Rajiv Gandhi in 1986 in order to reduce the pollution load on the river. • Human waste- domestic usage like bathing, laundry and public defecation • Industrial waste-dumping untreated waste into it. • Religious events -During festival seasons, people bathe in the Ganges to cleanse themselves from their sins.. A Hindu belief is that dropping the ashes of cremated bodies (at Varanasi) in the Ganges would give Moksha (liberation) to the jiva (soul).
- 12. The Three R’s to save the environment :- Reduce Reuse Recycle