Human Impacts in Antarctic Landscape

        Since the frirst tourists visits Antarctic landscape in 1958, Antarctic had attracted more than 10000 tourists to visit. At that time, there was not any policy about how to protect this natural environment. Human damage and pollution were hard to avoid. Tourists universally visited  Antarctic by ship, it brought in problems about the exploitation of energy resources and pollution. The protocol of environment protection was not carried out until 1998. It formulated different policies about the conservation of flora and fauna, the prevention of marine pollution and so on. The policies alleviated the waste of resources and pollution in Antarctic.

        Besides, the whaling was polular in Antarctic. Norwegian C. A. Larsen established a whaling station and  held the seasonal whale kill. Only in the first season, 195 whales were killed. Some tourists went to Antarctic just for seeing the whaling by their own eyes.This was not fun. Human's selfishness seriously broke the ecosphere.

        As the technology is developed, people can travel wherever they want. At the same time, they may be making damages to the environment unconsciously. People should pay more attention to the environment, and their care can save the world.

Link of resource: http://www.antarctica.org.nz/06-human_impact/index.html

Can you imagine?

Human Damage in the Rainforest

        As the rainforest is developed as a tourist attraction, the environmental issue becomes more seriously. Tourism brings positive impact to this area, but also makes negative effects to the rainforest and its residents. As more and more peoplel are going to visit, the demand of accommodation is growing. Building new hotel needs lots of woods as the materials. The primary resource they have got is from the rainforest. The disafforestation is happening consquentially. This does not only affect the plant in the rainforest, but also effects the wildlives there.

        Many people make money by tourism, and they only count how much money they can earn. The man-made damage in the environment is always being ignored. When people finally realize how bad the man-made damage effects the environment, that will be too late to remedy. The rainforest is a case that the damage has already happened. Both of the environment and the tradition are forgotten. People should find a way to develop the tourism and protect the environment at the same time, so that the tourism can bring them the long term benefits.

Link of the resource:http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0813.htm

Introduction

        In this blog, I will post all my studies about the man-made damage in tourism.