Global Environment

As humans living on this earth, we all need to play our part in conserving and protecting our global environment. This involves: minimizing the competition by people for space and resources, promoting sustainable development and maintaining biodiversity.
The competition for space and resources has resulted in deforestation, the ruining of sand dunes and overall the destruction of habitats. For example the clearing of land for raising livestock is a major cause of deforestation, in Costa Rica and Panama, 70 per cent of land has been cleared for pasture. This is a good example of humans cle…