https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/us/black-bear-euthanized-selfies-trnd/index.html   This article describes the unfortunate event in which a young black bear was euthanized due to prolonged exposure to humans. This bear, roughly 2-3 years old, would often sit near a boat launch in an Oregon park and eat food handed to it by people passing by. After an extended period of interaction, police began receiving calls from other concerned visitors about a bear in the area. Unfortunately, since the bear had grown accustomed to humans, it was captured and killed. This relates to Unit 3’s ideas that parks, which are intended to preserve wildlife, are perhaps at…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-safe-space-atlantic-whitefish-bridgewater-tagged-1.6898144 Conservation efforts are being made to re-establish Atlantic whitefish into the environment after near extinction due to humans. A dam was made on the Petite Rivière to create a water reservoir for the Town of Bridgewater. The dam blocked the migration route for the fish that return from the ocean to spawn in freshwater rivers which has limited their abilities to reproduce. In the process of restoring their population, the number of Atlantic whitefish in captivity has surpassed the population in the wild. The situation of these fish parallels that of the bison that once roamed Yellowstone. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/french-beach-park-bear-1.6920498 In…

What is important to remember about China is the massive spate of urbanization and industrial development that has contributed to the immense loss of biodiversity and the homogenization of flora and fauna species within major urban areas. Nonetheless, I would argue there is a strong biocultural relationship that exists between humans and nature that is reflected in urban Chinese architecture and park construction. This aligns with both Gifford Pinchot’s utilitarian and John Muir’s conservationist vision that forms a “balanced” strategy for preserving declining green spaces. Article 1: Conservation Hou, Wei, Liang Zhai, and Ulrich Waiz. “Identification of Spatial Conservation and…

Course Connection to Conservation Conversation refers to preventing wasteful uses of natural resources that are available and often is mentioned in terms of wildlife, water, or exploitation. All three terms can be examined when researching Canada’s conversation movements, but I will talk about forest exploitation that we experience here. Forest exploitation in Canada can be described as destruction of forests for accrual of financial gain. Canada’s boreal forests represent the largest carbon storehouses and habitats for migration bird populations [1]. “Forests are an integral part of Canada’s geography, identity, and economy, [however], forests in southern Canada have experienced significant loss…

Urbanization Before automobiles, horses were a primary method of transportation. Over 500 tons of horse manure was collected in the streets of New York every day in the early 1890s. Horse manure was the CO2 emissions that we face today, though since it is organic matter, it was recycled and repurposed into fertilizer. In our modern world, our transportation methods mainly burn fossil fuels producing an excessive amount of CO2 emissions. Since the CO2 emissions we create aren’t organic there is no way to dispose of them naturally. Therefore, we are stuck with this off-gas for hundreds of years to…