Life on Land by Jimena Mata

Life on Land

s1747325 — 2025-01-14 19:34:07 UTC

Wildlife is just as important as Human life, we mostly depend on them to survive. I've learned that almost 80% of our human diet relies on agriculture and our economic resources such as supermarkets.

13 Million Hectares

s1747325 — 2025-01-14 19:38:13 UTC

Every year 13 million hectares are lost by deforestation. Today Australia is ranked in the top 10 of the world's major deforestation and the only nation make the World Wildlife fund's global list of hotspots.

Reforestation and Afforestation Programs

s1747325 — 2025-01-14 19:38:38 UTC

Focuses on how to preserve and advocate the well-being of the ecosystems (natural habitats). There have been reforestation and afforestation programs that target to restore forests and create ecosystems that support various plant and animal species.

Animal SDGs

s1747325 — 2025-01-14 19:38:54 UTC

Most of this passage was from the perspective of an white-handed gibbon as it narrated what was happening to his home. His confusion of why humans were cutting down trees and replacing them with a different type of tree. Although the humans were trying to extract palm oil from the trees they were planting, they were taking away what was part of their home.

Deforestation and Forest Degradation

s1747325 — 2025-01-14 19:39:10 UTC

Deforestation happens whenever disasters happen like wildfires or when there was a new plantation of oil palm trees. In Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania there have been 24 of the most known hot spots in these areas.

Desertification

s1747325 — 2025-01-15 15:32:26 UTC

Desertification is mostly caused by human activities, to which they cause destruction , poor agricultural practices, over exploitation of natural resources and more.

LA Wildfires

s1747325 — 2025-01-15 15:33:03 UTC

Recently in Los Angeles, people have gone through the horrible experience of extreme wildfire. This fire was approximately 38, 629 acres as of 2:30am which is almost 60 square miles.

Africa 3 year drought

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:09:26 UTC

Africa has gone through a 3 year drought. This has made their lives a whole lot difficult, since they can't find any food/water for their families. Even their livestock has been affected, and little by little they start to die due to malnutrition. Every year Africa loses about 1.2 million acres. It seems that their major issue and cause of desertification was by fire.

China's overgrazing vegetation

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:16:59 UTC

In China there has been a major problem with overgrazed plantations. Most likely by the human factor of their activities. There are other factors like exploitation, low hydro logical conditions, low quality of vegetation and sandstorms.

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:20:21 UTC

Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania are the most affected by desertification. They are close to losing their natural resources and they already have been through the increase of temperatures, droughts and very little rain.

Latin America losing land = 3x Colombia

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:23:40 UTC

In the Latin American regions they are losing land mostly due to the extreme drought and the climate changes. So now the areas that were considered the most healthy and prosperous land are now withering. Almost 139 million acres have been degraded by 2019.

Oases Threatened

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:52:10 UTC

There has been research that over the past 25 years the water patterns have changed quite a lot. Oases are important sources of water for humans, plants and animals in the dry land areas. Oases are mostly found in 37 countries like Asia 77% and Australia 13%.

Desertification in the sub-Saharan Africa

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:52:19 UTC

I learned that dry land is more than 41% of land in the world and that more than 2 billion people live in them. During the 1970s, Africa's droughts had horrible causes as it weakened their country. Even so the people managed to get through the horrible circumstances.

Wetlands

s1747325 — 2025-01-16 19:52:27 UTC

Wetlands have mitigated natural disasters and lower danger for the people. Mitigate: "keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes".

Goal

s1747325 — 2025-01-17 20:16:36 UTC

The goal was to investigate how to increase soil erosion in the Middle Eastern. As it had been a severe disaster for the agriculture. This study was urgent as researchers had to be quick of the earth's observation and monitoring for any news of extreme weather changes by the climate. As the flooding would cause water-logging and not enough water causes dry land.

Issue/Problem

s1747325 — 2025-01-17 20:16:50 UTC

There has been severe droughts and forest fires in the Mediterranean regions. This caused major issues targeting the vegetation. The degradation was followed by the drought as people began over farming the soil. By that, the land was stripping the nutrients from the soil, and without proper production of the land the soil became useless. Mostly affecting countries that their economy were highly dependent on agriculture like Turkey.

Region

s1747325 — 2025-01-17 20:17:08 UTC

It has been found that in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean regions, desertification has been quite an issue. As the climate is far too dry and limited water supplies. Not only that but agriculture is overgrazed and mismanagement of water. And if they were to be flooded, the soil won't be of any use since it would be mostly damaged land.

Solution

s1747325 — 2025-01-17 20:17:32 UTC

With 25% of the Earth's land damaged, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) proposed to use a satellite that would highlight the land use a long with changes like dryness and temperature. The intention with monitoring any sort of desertification changes essentially in the Middle Eastern Regions.

Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean

s1747325 — 2025-01-17 20:21:36 UTC

I think I want to research degradation and desertification which must be addressed to reach Life on Land [GOAL 15]. I will focus on Middle Eastern/Mediterranean regions and their regional collaborations to sustain their agriculture. I want to research this because I learned through research that most of the people can't depend on simple agricultural produce as they can't grow anything on their land. Most importantly it feels almost helpless since it can't rain too much because their land would sustain the water. Nor can't be too dry as the soil won't have any nutrients for the roots. If you really think about the issue not only it affects certain people, but everything and everyone that lives upon the land.

https://www.iemed.org/publication/desertification-in-the-mediterranean-region/

What evidence has proved the social effects of the desertification caused among social classes in the Middle East?

s1747325 — 2025-01-23 19:10:51 UTC

How have the people in Middle East successfully grow crops without having to overgraze the land nor have to solely depend on artificial production of crops?

s1747325 — 2025-01-23 19:11:00 UTC

Is there any evidence that the infrastructure in the Middle East/ Mediterranean can help prevent desertification?

s1747325 — 2025-01-23 19:14:04 UTC