Sustainability and Conservation Notes

Flashcards based on lecture notes about sustainability, fishing practices, and environmental conservation efforts.

What is a problem with overfishing involving methods like bottom trawling?

Fishing methods like bottom trawling damage the seafloor and habitats.

What are some unsustainable types of fishing?

Bottom trawling, dynamite fishing, and cyanide fishing.

What is the problem with bottom trawling?

It destroys underwater plant life and endangers habitats.

What is an Exclusive Economic Zone?

A radius of 370km off a country's coast, managed by its government.

What might governments do in their Exclusive Economic Zone?

Setting maximum amounts of fish allowed to be caught in a period.

What is a Godwit?

A nomadic bird that flies from New Zealand to Alaska, stopping in mudflats to feed.

Why is the Godwit population declining?

China's mudflats are being reclaimed for industrialisation, reducing feeding and nesting sites.

What is Predator-Free 2050?

A goal set by the government to relocate recently-introduced predators to preserve endangered bird species.

Name some predators being targeted by Predator-Free 2050.

Cats, possums, weasels, rats, and stoats.

What is the Little Rascals Club focused on?

Protecting Tui, Pīwakawaka, Morepork, and Grey Heron from Mustelids and Rats.

What does Friends of Cobb Inc. focus on protecting?

Protecting Kiwis, Kakas, Keas, Blue ducks and Rock Wrens against mustelids and possums

What animals does the Stewart Island Community and Environment Trust focus on protecting?

Protecting Stewart Island Pokoeka, Little blue penguins, and Titi/Sooty Shearwater against Feral Cats, possums and Rats.

What can be the negative impacts of extraction for resources?

Deforestation and mass exodus of people.

What are possible negative impacts of production?

Factories in third-world countries with under-paid workers using toxic chemicals.

What is reduced to give consumer the lowest price?

Externalised costs.

What are the three ways consumers help the economy?

Consumers break the product, find it boring, or see it as out of fashion.

What is planned obsolescence?

Companies purposefully make products useless after a certain amount of time.

What is a harmful way of disposing of products?

Burning them, which releases noxious gases that are dangerous.

What is a trophic cascade?

When an apex predator is removed or added to a food chain.

What is Kaitiakitanga

he idea of guardianship for the earth.

What is sustainability?

The preservation of a resource by consuming at a rate slow enough to let it replenish.

What is social sustainability?

Making sure person-to-person interactions are healthy for the community.

What is environmental sustainability?

Ensuring habitats and species aren't put at serious risk because of overconsumption.

List the stages of 'The Story of Stuff'.

Extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal.