Being Green: A Life of Opportunity When I hear the iconic Kermit the Frog’s statement about the hardships of being green, I assume that being such an unordinary color could be seen as a difficult lifestyle because of the perpetual contrast the color places between the frog and the rest of society. Nobody else within society seems to be green, and the world must judge Kermit because he is out of the ordinary. However, in his song “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Kermit is actually lamenting about how
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The Game and fish have a lot of negatives as well as positives. Most of the negatives are working in extreme heat or in the freezing cold they also might have to work in the rain. To be a game warden you have to have a lot of skills such as animal instincts, they need to learn how to track animals or people. Having this job you have to take a lot of risks you have to be in shape in case you have to walk for a long time and hike up hills. In this speech I am going to talk about the good things about
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Diversity in ecosystems has to do with a combination of keystone species, symbiosis, and adaptations. First of all, in my keystone species presentation about grizzly bears; grizzly bears control the population of moose, elk, and other hooved animals which allow other plants to grow. If grizzly bears didn’t exist the population of those animals would increase. And that would lead to there being less plants in those areas. Also, the grizzly bears bring in more animals like birds because of the increase
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“Approximately 42% of threatened or endangered species are at risk primarily due to invasive species”. This is an environmental issue that I find particularly interesting because it is often overshadowed by more highly publicized issues. I was motivated to research this topic after reading a story about how humans had introduced pythons into the Everglades and the terrible consequences of those actions. Invasive species have left an atrocious path of destruction throughout recent history and their
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On the 8th of March a group travelled to La Trobe University Wildlife Sanctuary located in Bundoora to investigate the health of a wetlands ecosystem. On this specific day the weather presented itself to be dry and hot at a temperature of 22 °C with clear skies. The sanctuary the group travelled to was once occupied by Aboriginals and was utilised due to the rich nature of the wetlands and the abundance of species encompassing the area. The original Wildlife Reserve once being 6.5 hectares has since
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Since the late 1980s, people have recognized the importance of pursuing sustainability for human development. People know that we can not achieve great and important accomplishments in extremely difficult issues such as climate change and ecosystem degradation but ignore the problems of economic and social implications. Because of this awareness, scholars have studied and applied the "a tripple bottom line" or "three pillars" as a method of discovery and the desire to understand sustainability in
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This week I discovered my ecological footprint, and I have to say, it was pretty discouraging at first. According to the ecological footprint calculator, if everyone was like me, it would take 4.6 planets to provide enough resources. Also, on an individual basis, it’d take 10.58 acres to support myself with the needed resources. This calculation is based off of my apartment in Bellingham. I have always known that I am not the most environmentally conscious person, however, when I saw the exact number
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Yellow crazy ants are one of the worst invasive species in the world. Wherever they go they cause destruction to ecosystems. They kill animals that are twice their size. Where do yellow crazy ants live: Yellow crazy ants originated from Tropical areas with lots of rain. They were accidentally introduced to these places, The Christmas islands, Australia, and places in the Indian ocean. One of the ways the Yellow Crazy ants arrived in these places were boats that were trading or dropping people
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Feral pigs are one out of many different species that have become invasive in different spots around the world. For a species to be invasive it means that the species is not native to it’s current location and the species will often cause damage to the environment, human economy, or human health. Feral pigs are native to Asia and Europe, but were brought to Australia by European explorers and settlers. At first, the pigs were used as domesticated companions, but as they escaped captivity, they began
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There are many factors that impact western low land gorilla (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla) behavior. These behaviors can be triggered by the environment and disturbances that occur in or around their environment. A western low land gorilla’s (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla) behavior effects their eating and foraging habits (Doran McNeilage 1998). For example, when there is an increase in human presence eating and foraging decreases and awareness increases. The cause of the increase of awareness can come from
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