Biological Diversity

June 19th, 2015

Nutella is Bad for the Environment• France’s ecology minister, Ségolène Royal,

doesn’t think consumers should eat products containing palm oil, including Nutella.

• “We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation that also leads to global warming," Royal said Monday on an interview broadcast by the French television network Canal+. "We should stop eating Nutella, for example, because it’s made with palm oil.”

• Palm oil is one of the biggest commodities linked to tropical deforestation

• Palm oil is used in hundreds of consumer products, from toothpaste to peanut butter to cookies

The Most Vulnerable• Microendemics

• Relic species

• Species with small populations

• Slow reproducers

• Species that have evolved in isolation

Species Protection

• Endangered Species Act 1973

– Endangered Species

– Threatened Species

• What is the broader problem?

Carroll Country

• Stippled Studfish Fundulus bifax - Endangered

• Restricted distribution and are extremely rare. • Habitat loss due to dam and reservoir construction, habitat

degradation, and poor water quality.

Carroll County

• White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia – Threatened

Carroll Country

• Piedmont barren strawberryWaldsteinia lobata - threatened

Georgia

• Red-cockaded woodpeckerPicoides borealis - Endangered

Georgia

• Eastern indigo snakeDrymarchon corais couperi - Threatened

Georgia

• Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus - Threatened

Zoos• 1860 – Central Park Zoo

• 1970s conservation movement

Conservation Movement

• Conservation Programs focus on open space

• Integrated Conservation-Development Projects

Landscape Ecology

• Subfield of Geography

• SLOSS

• Importance of corridors

Wildlife Bridge