Transcript Tropical Rainforest Case Study

REVISION
Tropical Rainforest
Case Study
Papua New Guinea
What do these words
mean?
Exploitation
Sustainable Development
Conservation
Key Terms
 Exploitation
- environment is used in a way that it will be of no use to
future generations
 Sustainable development
- development of an area in a way that will help preserve
it for future use
 Conservation
- managing the environment in a way to protect it from
change
Introduction
 Where is the case study?
 What kind of ecosystem exists in Papua
New Guinea?
 Provide information on the population
Introduction
 Where:
Eastern half of New Guinea and surrounding islands, SE of Asia, NW
of Australia
 What:
Consists of rainforest (3rd largest area in world) & coral reefs
Rich ecosystem (9000 species plant, 250 species of mammal, 700
species of bird)
4 National Parks including ‘McAdam’
 Who:
Population: 4.5 M, many living in rainforests farming for
themselves.
Difficult to provide services to people; 70%literacy rate but lower
in remote area, 12,500 people to a doctor
Exploitation
 Government plans exists attempting to
legalise logging.
 The rainforest has been mapped and
areas sold to TNC’s for logging
 Land owners are not consulted and
made to agree for little money in return
 Landowners get 10 kina per m3
 Loggers sell at 160 kina per m3
Exploitation
 Give examples of exploitation in Papua
New Guinea.
Be specific- where are we talking about?
Aitape
 Government organised logging of 5,000 hectares,
85% owned by companies, 15% by locals.
 To be cleared to grow palm oil but this needs fertile
soils and nutrients are lost after felling.
 A drop in the hardwood markets resulted in the
project stopping after clearance of 1,000 hectares.
 What are the problems with this???
Sissano Lagoon
 Area with high priority for marine bio-diversity & prawn
fishing.
 A very fragile coral reef ecosystem.
 In 1996, Lou Oil Palm Project planned for area. This
involved moving the Sissano community inland.
 Forests were lost which in turn altered sediment
levels which disturbed and killed off coral reef.
Sustainable Development
 Many countries have given aid to
Papua New Guinea to help them to
sustainably develop the rainforest.
Examples of sustainable
development
 Outline what happened at Kikori Basin.
 Explain about the Collingwood Bay
Community Land Care Project.
Kikori Basin
 Chevron Inc discovered oil here in 1990’s and a
pipeline was built to export oil.
 Partnership between Chevron and Kutubu Joint
Venture Project exists to work with locals to allow
them to use resources e.g. sale of butterflies, fish
farming to managing conserved areas.
 Training for locals is provided. As a result 10,000
villagers lives and environment has improved.
Collingwood Bay
 To protect nature and cultural heritage.
 To help Masin locals plan for sustainable
development through ecotourism.
 Development of cottage industries –
Greenpeace has helped with the selling of
Tapa cloth in the USA.
 Production is kept small-scale.
Tapa Cloth
Examples of Conservation
Crater Mountain
Eco-lodges
Conservation
 Ecotourism has been introduced to help conserve Crater
Mountain.
 Crater Mountain is an area filled with various species of wildlife but
also threatened by logging, mining and oil drilling.
 The area was declared a Wildlife Management area to
encourage the government not to permit destruction of the area.
 They have now set up eco-lodges built for visitors to experience
a nature-based holiday and local people were used as guides.
 Literacy levels amongst guides were a problem.
Conflicts between groups
of people involved
 What do you think the main conflicts
were?
 What would the TNC’s opinions be?
 What would the local tribes people’s
opinions be?
Typical Questions
 With reference to an area you have studied
explain how exploitation affects the tropical
rainforest [6]
 Explain what is meant by the term ‘sustainable
development’ [2].
With reference to an area you have studied
describe sustainable projects put in place and
how they affected the local area and people [6]
LEARN IT!!
Remember to be specific!
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