Presentation on natural vegetationand wildlife

• Wildlife traditionally refers to non-domesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi and other organisms which grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.[1] Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative.

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• Natural resources are the resources available in a nature

• like air, water, sunlight, soil, minerals, forests, wild life etc.

• Natural resources are of two main types. They are

• renewable and non-renewable natural resources.

• i) Renewable natural resources :-

• Those resources which can be replenished in a short

• period of time like air, water, sunlight, forests etc.

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• All the things we use and consume are obtained from

• natural resources. Due to increase in population,

• industrialization and urbanization the demand for natural

• resources is increasing and their availability is limited . So

• there is a need for proper management of natural resources.

• The proper management of natural resources consists of :-

• i) Judicious use of natural resources and avoiding wastage

• of natural resources.

• ii) Long term planning for the use of natural resources so

• that it last not only for the present but also for future

• generations.

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What is natural vegetation

• Natural Vegetation are plants that would grow in an area in the absence of human influence

• Different types of natural vegetation grow in different climates and soil conditions

• Atlantic Canada has three different vegetation regions:

TundraBoreal and Taiga forestsMixed Forests

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Mixed Forest• P.E.I: gently rolling lowland, but in the

middle of the province is a small hilly section

• Squares of small wooded areas, patches of yellow grain and fields of potatoes blanket the island

• Heavy logging in 1800’s resulted in loss of P.E.I’s thick forests, but woodlands of maples, spruces and white birches thrive once again

• Provincial Tree- Northern Red Oak• Wildflowers bloom from May through

October

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