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Title: REVISION Tropical Rainforest Case Study


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REVISIONTropical Rainforest Case Study
  • Papua New Guinea

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What do these words mean?
  • Exploitation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Conservation

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Key Terms
  • Exploitation
  • environment is used in a way that it will be of
    no use to future generations
  • Sustainable development
  • development of an area in a way that will help
    preserve it for future use
  • Conservation
  • - managing the environment in a way to protect
    it from change

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Introduction
  • Where is the case study?
  • What kind of ecosystem exists in Papua New
    Guinea?
  • Provide information on the population

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Introduction
  • Where
  • Eastern half of New Guinea and surrounding
    islands, SE of Asia, NW of Australia
  • What
  • Consists of rainforest (3rd largest area in
    world) coral reefs
  • Rich ecosystem (9000 species plant, 250 species
    of mammal, 700 species of bird)
  • 4 National Parks including McAdam
  • Who
  • Population 4.5 M, many living in rainforests
    farming for themselves.
  • Difficult to provide services to people
    70literacy rate but lower in remote area, 12,500
    people to a doctor

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Exploitation
  • Government plans exists attempting to legalise
    logging.
  • The rainforest has been mapped and areas sold to
    TNCs for logging
  • Land owners are not consulted and made to agree
    for little money in return
  • Landowners get 10 kina per m3
  • Loggers sell at 160 kina per m3

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Exploitation
  • Give examples of exploitation in Papua New
    Guinea.
  • Be specific- where are we talking about?

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Aitape
  • Government organised logging of 5,000 hectares,
    85 owned by companies, 15 by locals.
  • To be cleared to grow palm oil but this needs
    fertile soils and nutrients are lost after
    felling.
  • A drop in the hardwood markets resulted in the
    project stopping after clearance of 1,000
    hectares.
  • What are the problems with this???

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Sissano Lagoon
  • Area with high priority for marine bio-diversity
    prawn fishing.
  • A very fragile coral reef ecosystem.
  • In 1996, Lou Oil Palm Project planned for area.
    This involved moving the Sissano community
    inland.
  • Forests were lost which in turn altered sediment
    levels which disturbed and killed off coral reef.

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Sustainable Development
  • Many countries have given aid to Papua New Guinea
    to help them to sustainably develop the
    rainforest.

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Examples of sustainable development
  • Outline what happened at Kikori Basin.
  • Explain about the Collingwood Bay Community Land
    Care Project.

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Kikori Basin
  • Chevron Inc discovered oil here in 1990s and a
    pipeline was built to export oil.
  • Partnership between Chevron and Kutubu Joint
    Venture Project exists to work with locals to
    allow them to use resources e.g. sale of
    butterflies, fish farming to managing conserved
    areas.
  • Training for locals is provided. As a result
    10,000 villagers lives and environment has
    improved.

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Collingwood Bay
  • To protect nature and cultural heritage.
  • To help Masin locals plan for sustainable
    development through ecotourism.
  • Development of cottage industries Greenpeace
    has helped with the selling of Tapa cloth in the
    USA.
  • Production is kept small-scale.

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Tapa Cloth
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Examples of Conservation
  • Crater Mountain

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Eco-lodges
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Conservation
  • Ecotourism has been introduced to help conserve
    Crater Mountain.
  • Crater Mountain is an area filled with various
    species of wildlife but also threatened by
    logging, mining and oil drilling.
  • The area was declared a Wildlife Management area
    to encourage the government not to permit
    destruction of the area.
  • They have now set up eco-lodges built for
    visitors to experience a nature-based holiday and
    local people were used as guides.
  • Literacy levels amongst guides were a problem.

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Conflicts between groups of people involved
  • What do you think the main conflicts were?
  • What would the TNCs opinions be?
  • What would the local tribes peoples opinions be?

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Typical Questions
  • With reference to an area you have studied
    explain how exploitation affects the tropical
    rainforest 6
  • Explain what is meant by the term sustainable
    development 2.
  • With reference to an area you have studied
    describe sustainable projects put in place and
    how they affected the local area and people 6

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LEARN IT!! Remember to be specific! You should
have all of these notes already but see the
school website if you are missing
anything. ClassroomsgtGeographygtGCSE Revision
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