ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conservation Biology, Acid Rain, Speech From The Throne
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We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free (also. 1st wave = national parks: logical conclusion of deforestation and hunting (in canada and the us, seeing the landscape change and a lot of europeans don"t like what they are seeing (pre-canada. In the same rocky mountain chain: most parks originated in the west in the same rocky mountain chain and they were about tourism and getting people to settle in the west of canada. Parks today: today we have parks all across canada, part of our international commitments are the 2020 goals, by 2020, each nation that has signed up to the un convention on biological diversity is supposed to protect. Parks in 2017: national parks in canada will be free in 2017, bruce peninsula (closest to us, prof. olive"s favourite park is waterton national park in southern alberta and on the edge of montana.
