Ecosystem Management Flashcards

Trees can be cut selectively, targeting specific species or age groups.
Forestry Reserves and National Parks can be established to protect forests from exploitation.
Wildlife corridors can be used to link areas of land with vegetation, allowing animals to reproduce and seek food.
Debt-for-nature swaps can be implemented, where wealthier countries pay a portion of poorer countries' debts in exchange for rainforest protection.
Agroforestry, the practice of growing trees and shrubs alongside crops and livestock farming, can be adopted.
Slash and burn farming involves natives of the Amazonian rainforest clearing a small area of forest, using the trees for fuel and building supplies, burning the vegetation, and using the ash as a natural fertilizer. After some years, the nutrients in the soil will have been used and the natives will move to a new plot of land, leaving the original land to recover.

Ecotourism: Promotion of tourism with a small carbon footprint that benefits the local community and environment.
Forestation: Increasing vegetation coverage within an area to slow overland flow and increase infiltration. Trees intercept rainfall, resulting in less rainfall hitting the land directly.
Magic stones: Used in areas with less rainfall and are placed along contour lines to prevent topsoil erosion and promote infiltration, decreasing overland flow and increasing land productivity.