Effect of Land Clearance or Land "Reclamation"

1. Effect of Land Clearance or Land "Reclamation" Infrastructural project: build a air station WYS

3. Effect on environment • Deforestation • increase global warming due to the less trees can absorbed carbon dioxide • decrease the bio diversity of plant • the disappearance of indigenous groups of plant

4. plants can sustain animals through provision of habitat and a food source, so food chain is blocked. • soil sustains plants and which then act as water capture system

5. Exposed soils • soil erosion as the plant can not cover conserved soil • declining fertility and desertification (minerals/metal loss e.g. gold, Mg )

6. degrade the water quality of downstream communities • contribute to flooding and silting of rivers and dams • Landlocked harbour

7. reclamation • erosion on cleared land increases sediment loads • land clearance often extends to the coastal regions and into the sea itself

8. clarity of the water (turbidity) • nature of sediments (for example, changes from sandy to muddy) • decreases in water depth • affect the distribution of plants, animals and their habitats

9. Pollution • water pollution (make water turbidity, release of heavy metal, organic solvents) • land pollution (e.g. litter) • air pollution (exhaust air from machine)

10. Effect on wildlife • Loss of habitat (e.g. forest, coral) • lead to the extinction of species • the disappearance of indigenous groups

11. Decrease bio diversity • Loss of food sources( food chain is blocked----no producer)

12. Effect on human • provide a new space for human development • Increase economic intake • Provide more job opportunities

13. Increase in human populations in tropical regions • Increase international exchange

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