What is conservation?
The proper management of a natural resource to prevent its exploitation, destruction, or degradation is known as conservation.
What exactly is a resource?
A particular reserve or supply of an obvious benefit that can be used or drawn by a man or an organization for fruitful and viable public use.
What are natural resources?
Natural resource refers to any asset that is primarily derived from nature and is readily available on Earth in crude form. It is a type of asset that is both common and complex in terms of accessibility.
Examples include rocks, minerals, soil, and water.
Why should we preserve natural resources?
We all know that nature provides all of our basic needs, but we are overusing or plundering these resources. If we continue to overexploit nature, there will be no resources accessible in the future.
As a result, there is a pressing need for us to conserve nature. Here are some actions that we can do:
- To sustain ecological equilibrium to support life.
- To protect various types of biodiversity.
- To preserve natural resources for current and future generations.
What is demanding our attention?
Earth is endowed with abundant natural resources, but these resources are depleting daily.
• Forest and arable land, for example, are being depleted as a result of urbanization, overpopulation, and excessive consumption.
• Due to unregulated poaching, hunting, and industrialization, wildlife resources are all being depleted.
• As a result of industrialization, water supplies are becoming poisoned and running dry.
List of Natural Resources
• Land resources (anything about soil and its properties)
• Resources for water (water bodies of all kinds)
• Resources from the forest (about plant and tree life)
• Aquatic and marine resources
• Animal resources (domesticated animals or those that humans can easily approach)
• Atmospheric resources (everything that people cannot influence, such as rainfall, sunlight, and temperature)
• Geological resources (naturally occurring rock formations, valleys, minerals, precious metals, and so on)
Natural resource types and classification
•Renewable Natural Resource
A renewable common asset may be used again due to its constant availability in nature. For instance, air, water, and so on. Renewable resources are those resources that have a continuous process of renewal and supply in nature, often known as “flow resources,” since they may be used endlessly as long as the production (the flow) continues.
Solar energy crops (food and fiber) water-air biomass wood soil wind organic matter geothermal energy are some examples.
• Non-Renewable Natural Resource
A non-renewable natural resource cannot be used for an extended length of time after its first use. This is because such resources are non-renewable in nature and require a long time to re-produce, or to put it another way, a significant investment to become once again. On the other side, the available goods at one location diminish, necessitating a search elsewhere. For example, coal, natural gas, and power plants. Non-renewable resources are the categories of resources whose physical amount does not expand considerably over time and whose rate of renewal is so slow as to be insignificant
Nonrenewable resources are frequently referred to as “stock resources.”
The entire supply of the resource is finite, and each rate of usage reduces some future rate of use.
Most industrialized countries rely on nonrenewable energy sources such as coal and oil, as well as a nuclear power. Industrialized societies rely on nonrenewable energy sources.
Non-renewable resource examples are; ores and rocks, petroleum and natural gas, coal, natural gas, and oil.
•Flow Resource
Whether individuals utilize them or not, a flow resource/stream asset is replaced by distinctive activities. As an example, new water flows through streams and rivers as a result of precipitation; sea rises and falls exist within regular frameworks and distinctive operations.