Post 7 : A career-related article

Hello everyone, today I have to write about an article of my interest, related to my career, So I found something very interesting. I found an article about Habitat restoration.

Habitat Restoration

There are many factors that can change the ecosystem producing fragmentation and destruction.  Ecological restoration is a process that accelerates the recovery of destroyed ecosystems. The main object of habitat restoration is that the destroyed ecosystem be self-sufficient.

To restore habitats there are some steps:

1.       To identify the processes that degraded the ecosystem

2.       Create some methods to stop these processes

3.       To define realistic objects

4.       To develop some techniques to catch the goals

5.       To communicate and document the progress

A project of restoration have to has enough time for its development, and it has to be about recover the diversity and functionality in a ecosystem, ecologically and genetically talking, witouh forgetting the landscape. In habitat restoration, you must favour the connection between reforested areas with plantations, with the object to make ecological corridors for animals, and in this way, avoid genetical problems like endogamy.

In my personal opinion, I think these are very important because deforestation is a reality. Preserve and restore the ecosystem is very important for us, for the human well-being but more important, for all the living beings to maintain the equilibrium of all the interactions that are produced in an ecosystem.

Here is the link for the article: http://webs.uvigo.es/revistaecosistemas/miniecosistemas/temas/restauracion_habitats.pdf

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Post 4 : Climate Change

Hello readers, today I’m going to talk about the article “New IPCC Report Strengthens Certainty of Climate Change”.

This article talks about a climate report that reaffirms what scientists says about de Climate Change. Basically, they confirm that humans are causing global warming, and these global warming produces climate changes that will get worse with the passage of time.

The information in the report is really alarming, it says that the Ice is melting faster, the ocean is becoming more acidic, and weather patterns are changing, and these entire things are happening right now. Also, as some scientist says, all the people is going to evidenced a increased frequency in heat waves, and that will affects both people and ecosystems.

As a conclusion, the article says that in spite of efforts to roll our more efficient cars and solar panels, carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase year after year. And give us the following fact: In 2011, humans emitted 9.5 gigatons of carbon, up 54 percent over the 1990 level.

Personally, I think global warming and climate change –both go hand in hand, obviously- is a relevant topic that concerns us all, because we are all part of this ecosystem called ‘Planet Earth’ and I think we have to care about it. Anyway there’s so many industries that contribute for climate change and we can almost do nothing about it … that’s makes me sad.

Well, that’s all, you can read the article here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519636/new-ipcc-report-strengthens-certain-of-climate-change/#comments

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