Relationship between Wildlife Conservation and Global-Scale Environmental Problems : An Example of Global Warming Mitigation Measurements

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  • YASUMOTO Morihiro
    Laboratory of Marine and Atmospheric Geochemistry, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University:(Present address)Hokkaido Soya Livestock Hygiene Service Center

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  • 地球温暖化防止対策と野生生物の保護について

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This study applies the idea of global warming mitigation to the conservation of threatened wildlife. Although healthy habitats are quite indispensable for appropriate wildlife management, habitat destruction results in undermining the richness of species wildlife, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Keeping land biomes healthy should be considered to solve the problems. In relation to the serious deterioration of wildlife habitats, healthy land biomes (biodiversity hotspots) serve as a large reservoir of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Simultaneously, the healthy land biomes have a large capacity to uptake atmospheric carbon dioxide. Reconstructing natural and healthy land biomes will enlarge the capacity of carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems and prevent further global warming. In line with this scenario, we recommend the strategy for reconstructing natural environments, especially, the natural forest reconstruction method and the naturally diverse river construction method, as a first step to recover natural and healthy terrestrial ecosystems.

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