Man’s Impact on the

Environment
Forest, Minerals, Marine Life
Order of Activities
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
• Impact on Forestry
• Positive and Negative Impacts
• Deforestation
• Impact on Marine Life
• Positive and Negative Impacts
• Overfishing
How does Overfishing Impact the Environment!?
• Impact on Mining
• Positive and Negative Impacts
• Overpopulation
How does Overpopulation Impact our Natural Resources!?
• Impact on Energy Resources
Alternative Energy Resources
• VIDEO PRESENTATION
• Short Summary of Presentation
• GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
• Kahoot!

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 Objective of
Presentation
o Describe the impact of human activities
on our natural resources, both positive
and negative.

Objective
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Impact on Forests
Positive and Negative
• Humans have converted forest to agricultural and urban
uses, exploited species, fragmented wildlands, changed
the demographic structure of forests, altered habitat,
and degraded the environment with atmospheric and soil
pollutants.
• Despite the many ways in which we as humans have
destroyed the forest and its biosystem there are a few
ways in which we have positively impacted forest life.
Forest
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Positive Impacts
Planting Programs • Reducing Demand

These programs aim to:

• Undo and rectify the effects of
deforestation
• Absorb pollution and dust from
the air
• Rebuild natural habitats and
ecosystems,
• Mitigate global warming Reducing Demand
• Nonprofit groups like Rainforest
Relief are attempting to reduce
the demand for rainforest
logging by persuading
consumers to stay away from
buying tropical hardwoods,
which come from the rainforests

Forest
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Negative Impacts
Deforestation

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Deforestation
Negative Impact

Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to

make room for something besides forest. This can
include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing, or
using the timber for fuel, construction or
manufacturing.

Deforestation
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Deforestation
How does Deforestation Impact the Environment !?

Soil Erosion Increases CO2 Habitat Loss

Present in the Air

Tree roots anchor them to Trees absorb carbon Trees are home to many
the soil making it more dioxide from the air land animals because
resistant to soil erosion. during photosynthesis. they provide shelter and
Cutting down trees When trees are cut down, protection. Once
degrades the soil making carbon dioxide is released deforestation occurs,
it weaker. This increases into the air which animals are forced to
the risk of soil erosion, contributes to global relocate into other areas,
landslides and flooding. warming. where some may die or Your Logo or Name Here
become invasive species.
 • Human activities affect marine ecosystems as a result
Impact on Marine of pollution, overfishing, the introduction of invasive
species, and acidification, which all impact on the
marine food web and may lead to largely unknown
Life consequences for the biodiversity and survival of
marine life forms.
Positive and Negative • Although there are many negative impacts on marine
life there are a few positive ways in which we as
humans influence marine life forms.

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Positive Impacts
Marine Protected Areas
• Increasing the protection of the Ocean via the designation of specially protected areas has had
positive impacts on habitats and fish stocks in many locations.

Beach Clean Up
• Cleaning the beach also improves the coastal and ocean ecosystem by making sure that none
of the trash in the sea kills marine life or is toxic enough to disrupt the marine life cycle.

Ocean Habitat Restoration

• Because of greater awareness that coastal habitats generate the fish that supports fisheries,
protect us from damaging storms and contribute to climate regulation. The ‘Mapping Ocean
Wealth’ program has focused on documenting the extent of loss of these habitats and the
value of the services that have been lost. The high value of these lost services now place
coastal/marine habitat restoration, and conservation of the remaining habitat, as a top priority
for coastal communities and businesses.

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Negative Impacts
Destructive Fishing Techniques
• Destructive fishing techniques devastate the marine environment and include bottom
trawling, bycatch, the use of poison and explosives and ghost fishing.

Oil Spills
• Sadly, oil spills still occur, coating beaches, sinking to smother Ocean plant life and killing a
wide variety of birds, fish and sea mammals.

Habitat Destruction
• Virtually all Ocean habitats have been affected in some way via drilling or mining, dredging for
aggregates for concrete and other building materials, destructive anchoring, removal of corals
and land “reclamation”.

Invasive Species
• Invasive species can lead to the extinction of native plants and animals, destroy biodiversity,
and permanently alter habitats through both direct and indirect effects. This can result in
fundamental disruptions of aquatic ecosystems.

Plastic Pollution
• Disturbing impacts of marine plastics are the ingestion, suffocation and entanglement of
hundreds of marine species. Marine wildlife such as seabirds, whales, fishes and turtles, mistake
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 Overfishing
Negative Impact

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish from a

body of water at a rate that the species cannot
replenish, resulting in those species becoming
underpopulated in that area.

Overfishing
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Overfishing
How does Overfishing Impact the Environment!?

When too many fish are taken out of the ocean it creates an imbalance that can erode the
DISRUPT food web and lead to a loss of other marine life. For example, herring is a vital prey species
for the cod. Therefore, when herring are overfished the cod population suffers as well. And
FOOD CHAIN
this has a chain reaction on other species too.

Decades of overfishing has resulted in the decline of key fish stocks as well as collateral
DECLINING impacts to other marine life. Hundreds of thousands of fishery are captured each year.
WILDLIFE Many of these species are endangered and protected, while some such as the vaquita, are
on the brink of extinction.

Overfishing can impact entire ecosystems. It can change the size of fish remaining, as well
CAUSES A DENT as how they reproduce and the speed at which they mature. This is especially true for
IN MARINE species that are constantly in-demand. Although there are replenishment efforts in place,
LIFE this cannot provide an immediate solution since it takes time for fish and other marine
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Impact on Minerals
Positive and Negative Impacts of Mining

Minerals
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Mining
Positive Impacts

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Positive Impacts
How does Mining Positively Impact the Environment!?

USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IMPACT ON LAND

POSITIVELY IMPACT AIR

• Global warming is considered as unsustainable • Mining brings life to the area

problem and it has adverse impact on mining
• Mining is one of the pioneer industries that use
renewable energy such as solar and wind power.
• Using renewable energies reduce carbon
footprint and help to have better climate
• Site preparation and applying mine reclamation
plan at first stages, improve landscape and
increase stability of the area
• Dust control decrease sources of pollution in the
area
• Disposal waste fill the valley and make smother
topography

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 Mining
Negative Impacts

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Mining
How does Mining Negatively Impact the Environment!?
SOIL POLLUTION
• Quite often, large amounts of
soil are moved and processed.
In addition, many harmful
chemicals are used in mining
on a regular basis in order to
extract precious minerals from
the dirt. In turn, those
chemicals end up in the soil
and can significantly
contaminate it. This results in
the death of several bugs and
other microorganisms that
nurture the soil
GROUNDWATER DEPLETION OF NATURAL
POLLUTION RESOURCES
• If the soil gets contaminated in • Many resources that are
mining processes, also the extracted through mining are
quality of our groundwater will non-renewable and sooner or
be at risk. Through rainfalls, later, we will run out of those
the contaminants in the soil precious resources.
will be washed through the soil
and will contaminate our
groundwater.
• Which may lead to:
1. Contaminated drinking water,
2. Disrupted growth and
reproduction of aquatic plants
and animals
3. The corroding effects of the
acid on parts of infrastructures
such as bridges.
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 Overpopulation
Negative Impact
Overpopulation refers to a population which exceeds its
sustainable size within a particular environment or habitat.
Overpopulation results from an increased birth rate,
decreased death rate or the immigration to a new ecological
niche with a sudden decline in available resources. Therefore,
overpopulation describes a situation in which a population in
an ecosystem have limited the resources available to sustain
all organisms.
Overpopulation
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Overpopulation
How does Overpopulation Impact our Natural Resources!?

Impacts Forestry Deforestation

• Trees are cut down, deforestation, to create space to build houses for the growing population. This also affects the air as the
deforestation causes more carbon dioxide to be released into the air which is harmful to humans and animals.

Impacts Energy Resources Burning of Fossil Fuels

• Overpopulation causes an increase in the amount of electricity used, the modes of transport used and the number of factories.
Fossil fuels are extracted and used to fuel factories and machines. These resources are nonrenewable and take billions of years
to form in the earth. As the population grows, these fossil fuels are used in excess causing a strain on the environment. In
addition to the loss of fossil fuel. The burning of these fossil fuels add gases to the air that cause Global Warming levels to rise.

Impacts Marine Life Water Pollution

• The increase in population also causes a decrease in water supply. The amount of available water for use is not enough to supply
the growing population. Poor waste management causes some of the available water in seas, lakes, rivers and oceans to become
polluted. This makes the water unsuitable for use. Overpopulation
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 Impact on Energy
Resources
There are two types of energy sources that we
use for energy. They are renewable (alternate)
and non-renewable energy(fossil fuels).

Energy
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Energy Resources
• The use of non-renewable energy also know as fossil fuels has several negative impacts on the environment.
• Negative Effects on the Environment include:
Air and water pollution
Damage to public health
Wildlife and habitat loss
Global warming emissions.

• The use of non-renewable energy has no positives affects on the environment.

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Alternate Energy
Sources
• In contrast, most renewable energy sources
produce little to no global warming
emissions. Even when including “life cycle”
emissions of clean energy (i.e., the
emissions from each stage—manufacturing,
installation, operation, decommissioning),
the global warming emissions associated
with renewable energy are minimal.
• Other Benefits for the Environment include:
Reduces some types of air pollution.
Reducing dependence on imported fuels
Improved Public Health

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Reference Page
• Positive Impacts on Forests
https://sciencing.com/positive-hum
an-impacts-on-rainforests-1251314
7.html
• Deforestation
https://www.livescience.com/2769
2-deforestation.html#:~:text=Defor
estation%20is%20the%20permanen
t%20removal,to%20the%20World%
20Wildlife%20Fund.
• Positive Impact on Marine Life
https://oceanwealth.org/applicatio
ns/restoration/
https://www.wavetribe.com/blogs
/eco/why-beach-cleanups-are-impo
rtant
https://oceanconservationtrust.org
/think-ocean/ways-to-think-ocean/
• Negative Impact on Marine Life • Overpopulation
https://oceanconservationtrust.org https://biologydictionary.net/overp
/think-ocean/ways-to-think-ocean/ opulation/
• Overfishing • Energy Resources
https://connectusfund.org/list-of-1 https://www.nationalgeographic.or
2-big-pros-and-cons-of-overfishing g/encyclopedia/non-renewable-ene
rgy/
• Positive Impacts of Mining
https://www.researchgate.net/pub • Alternate Energy Sources
lication/268033877_Positive_impac https://www.ucsusa.org/resources
ts_of_mining_activities_on_environ /benefits-renewable-energy-use
ment
• Negative Impacts of Mining
https://environmental-conscience.c
om/mining-pros-cons/
https://connectusfund.org/5-forem
ost-pros-and-cons-of-mountaintop-
removal
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The Team

Tori-ann Collier Tonique Gabrielle Gabrielle

Gordon Thomas
Hewitt

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Thank You