Caretakers versus Exploiters: Impacting Biodiversity in the Age of Humans

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.05.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Learning Objective
  4. Content Background
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix on Implementation of District Standards
  8. Classroom Resources
  9. Bibliography 
  10. Notes

Friend or Foe: Human Impact on the Earth’s Ecosystems

Tara McCrone

Published September 2020

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Notes

1 Raup, “The Role of Extinction in Evolution” 6758-6762

2 “Species Extinction”, https://www.iucn.org/content/species-extinction

3 Education, http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/science/2018/index.shtml

4 Raup, “The Role of Extinction in Evolution” 6758-6762

5 “Species Extinction”, https://www.iucn.org/content/species-extinction

6 Raup, “The Role of Extinction in Evolution” 6760

7 De Vos “Estimating the Normal Background Rate of Species Extinction,” 452

8 National Geographic Society, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/mass-extinctions/

9 Greshko, “What Are Mass Extinctions, and What Causes Them?” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/mass-extinction/

10 Wilson, “Threats to Biodiversity” 111

11 Elewa, Mass Extinction 1-3

12 National Geographic Society, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/mass-extinctions/

13 Greshko, “What Are Mass Extinctions, and What Causes Them?” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/mass-extinction/

14 Wilson, “Threats to Biodiversity” 111

15 Elewa, Mass Extinction 1-3

16 iBiology, https://www.ibiology.org/ecology/loss-biodiversity-human-dominated-world/

17 Sandon, “Global Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinctions Linked to Humans, Not Climate Change,” 1

18 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 230

19 Wan, “Climate Warming and Humans Played Different Roles in Triggering Late Quarternary Extinctions in East and Wes Eurasia,” 7

20 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 230

21 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 230

22 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 230

23 Elewa, Mass Extinction 160-161

24 Peivani, “The Sixth Mass Extinction: Anthropocene and the Human Impact on Biodiversity,” 90

25 Ellis, Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction, 53

26 Peivani, “The Sixth Mass Extinction: Anthropocene and the Human Impact on Biodiversity,” 90

27 Oxford English Dictionary

28 Peivani, “The Sixth Mass Extinction: Anthropocene and the Human Impact on Biodiversity,” 91

29 Image marked as available for reuse.

30 Jackson, “Extinction: The Passenger Pigeon, Last Hopes, Letting Go,” 767 & 769

31 Jackson, “Extinction: The Passenger Pigeon, Last Hopes, Letting Go,” 770

32 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 17

33 Ochoa-Ochoa, “The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species,” 1

34 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 18

35 Weldon, "Origin of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus,” 2100

36 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 163

37 Weldon, "Origin of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus,” 2100

38 Weldon, "Origin of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus,” 2104

39 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 18

40 Weldon, "Origin of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus,” 2104

41 Peivani, “The Sixth Mass Extinction: Anthropocene and the Human Impact on Biodiversity,” 91

42 Watson, “Human Response to Climate Change Will Seriously Impact Biodiversity Conservation: Its Time We Start Planning for Them,” 2

43 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 41

44 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 41

45 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 41

46 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 141

47 Oxford English Dictionary

48 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 41-42

49 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 42

50 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 42-43

51 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 43

52 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 43

53 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 40

54 Wassman, “Footprints of Climate Change in the Arctice Marine Ecosystem,” 1236 & 1239

55 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 45

56 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 45

57 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 141

58 Crain, “Understanding and Managing Human Threats to Coastal Marine Environment,” 45

59 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 142

60 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 140

61 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 160

62 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 160-162

63 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 160-162

64 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 163

65 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 163-164

66 Laurance, “Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests,” 164

67 Curtin, “Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over-the-Horizon Learning Exchange between African and American Pastoralists,” 871

68 Curtin, “Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over-the-Horizon Learning Exchange between African and American Pastoralists,” 871

69 Curtin, “Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over-the-Horizon Learning Exchange between African and American Pastoralists,” 871

70 iBiology, https://www.ibiology.org/ecology/loss-biodiversity-human-dominated-world/

71 Farigone, “Bioenergy and Wildlife: Treats and Opportunities for Grassland Conservation,” 767-775

72 Curtin, “Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over-the-Horizon Learning Exchange between African and American Pastoralists,” 871

73 Duncan, “Oil in the Sahara: Mapping Anthropogenic Threats to Saharan Biodiversity from Space,” 1

74 Brito, “Unravelling Biodiversity, Evolution, and Treats to Conservation in the Sahara-Sahel,” 215

75 Brito, “Unravelling Biodiversity, Evolution, and Treats to Conservation in the Sahara-Sahel,” 215

76 Duncan, “Oil in the Sahara: Mapping Anthropogenic Threats to Saharan Biodiversity from Space,” 2

77 Brito, “Unravelling Biodiversity, Evolution, and Treats to Conservation in the Sahara-Sahel,” 223-224

78 Averill-Murray, “A New Approach to Conservation of the Mojave Desert Tortoise,” 894

79 Duncan, “Oil in the Sahara: Mapping Anthropogenic Threats to Saharan Biodiversity from Space,” 2

80 Duncan, “Oil in the Sahara: Mapping Anthropogenic Threats to Saharan Biodiversity from Space,” 2

81 Patterson, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-poised-to-shrink-two-national-monuments/

82 Averill-Murray, “A New Approach to Conservation of the Mojave Desert Tortoise,” 894

83 Averill-Murray, “A New Approach to Conservation of the Mojave Desert Tortoise,” 894

84 Rodríguez- Rodríguez, “Mapping Direct Human Influence on World Mountain Areas,” 199

85 Rodríguez- Rodríguez, “Mapping Direct Human Influence on World Mountain Areas,” 199

86 Wickham, "The Overlooked Terrestrial Impacts of Mountaintop Mining," 335-345

87 Edwards, “Mining and the African Environment,” 302-303

88 Pauchard, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Plant Invasions Reaching New Elevations,” 482

89 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 193-195 & 205

90 Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 205

91 Pauchard, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Plant Invasions Reaching New Elevations,” 480

92 Huss, “Toward Mountains without Permanent Snow and Ice,” 418

93 Huss, “Toward Mountains without Permanent Snow and Ice,” 425 & 427

94 Parson https://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/remembering_that_all_life_is_interrelated

95 UN Report, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

96 UN Report, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

97 Masood, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05984-3

98 https://www.iucn.org/content/natural-solutions-protected-areas-helping-people-deal-desertification-and-drought

99 UN Report, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

100 Huss, “Toward Mountains without Permanent Snow and Ice”, 427

101 Sneed, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

102 Sneed, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

103 Sneed, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-conservation-efforts-can-learn-from-indigenous-communities/

104 Curtin, “Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over-the-Horizon Learning Exchange between African and American Pastoralists”, 873

105 Kasaona, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kasaona_how_poachers_became_caretakers?language=en

106 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 17

107 Hoole, “Breaking down fences: Recoupling social-ecological systems for biodiversity conservation in Namibia,” 304

108 Kasaona, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kasaona_how_poachers_became_caretakers?language=en

109 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 18

110 Berkes, “Rethinking Community-Based Conservation,” 622-624 & 627

111 Kasaona, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kasaona_how_poachers_became_caretakers?language=en

112 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 18

113 Kasaona, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kasaona_how_poachers_became_caretakers?language=en

114 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 20

115 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 20

116 Kasaona, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_kasaona_how_poachers_became_caretakers?language=en

117 Boudreaux, “Community Conservatoin In Namibia: Empowering The Poor With Property Rights”, 20

118 Goodall, https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_how_humans_and_animals_can_live_together

119 Goodall, https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_how_humans_and_animals_can_live_together

120 Goodall, https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_how_humans_and_animals_can_live_together

121 UN Report, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

122 UN Report, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

123 Image created by author

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