What is sustainability?
Sustainability is all about protecting natural resources and making sure as little damage as possible is done to the environment. It means protecting all the living creatures and biodiversity. It also means that all people and communities should be treated fairly too. It is about trying to find good ways to use natural resources and good ways to recycle and reduce waste products.
Sustainable forests are very important because in the past trees were just cut down and land used for other things like pasture for sheep and cattle. Now people have learnt we must replant and have reforestation.
In some countries like Canada there are lots of sustainable forests. Here is my presentation.( Great Lakes Sustainable Forest)
In Spain there are not as many , in fact only about 7% of forestland has the certificate of
sustainable. This is because there are lots of small forests with private owners and it is easier to make a big area sustainable. There is a private owned small sustainable forest in Capdepera, it belongs to my friend, Toni's family. They are sustainable because they never cut down the trees and have a special "Reserva de Fauna" certificate. It is an official Bee Protection area and they have lots of wild , natural beehives. The area is all natural and very green and beautiful.
BeeLover Sanctuary, Capdeperahttps://www.facebook.com/beeloversanctuary/
They want to keep it natural to preserve biodiversity. Nearby, you can see the opposite. Rich landowners cut down all the trees to make big houses and villas with swimming pools. Even worse, there is a massive 5 star hotel complex that takes up a whole mountain side. This is the problem in Mallorca. Tourism clashes with
the environment. Sometimes ecologists protest about this. The GOB activists fight to protect birds, wildlife and forests and they once won a battle to stop a golf course at SON BOSC .
Sustainability is all about protecting natural resources and making sure as little damage as possible is done to the environment. It means protecting all the living creatures and biodiversity. It also means that all people and communities should be treated fairly too. It is about trying to find good ways to use natural resources and good ways to recycle and reduce waste products.
Sustainable forests are very important because in the past trees were just cut down and land used for other things like pasture for sheep and cattle. Now people have learnt we must replant and have reforestation.
In some countries like Canada there are lots of sustainable forests. Here is my presentation.( Great Lakes Sustainable Forest)
In Spain there are not as many , in fact only about 7% of forestland has the certificate of
sustainable. This is because there are lots of small forests with private owners and it is easier to make a big area sustainable. There is a private owned small sustainable forest in Capdepera, it belongs to my friend, Toni's family. They are sustainable because they never cut down the trees and have a special "Reserva de Fauna" certificate. It is an official Bee Protection area and they have lots of wild , natural beehives. The area is all natural and very green and beautiful.
BeeLover Sanctuary, Capdeperahttps://www.facebook.com/beeloversanctuary/
They want to keep it natural to preserve biodiversity. Nearby, you can see the opposite. Rich landowners cut down all the trees to make big houses and villas with swimming pools. Even worse, there is a massive 5 star hotel complex that takes up a whole mountain side. This is the problem in Mallorca. Tourism clashes with
the environment. Sometimes ecologists protest about this. The GOB activists fight to protect birds, wildlife and forests and they once won a battle to stop a golf course at SON BOSC .
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