Human is totally depend on the nature for his peaceful existence and survival. Survival without things like air, water, sunlight, energy, food stuffs is unimaginable. These substances are natural resources and their depletion or pollution will not affordable for the human as well as other organisms. So, natural resources and conservation of these things are need of an hour.
Understanding Natural resources
Natural resources are the substances occurring naturally and are useful in their original state or after modification. Their potential can be realised after the application of advanced technology.
Many natural resources were unknown to man but with the development of science and technology he realized their potential.
We need everything from nature for our nutrition, for construction of houses, manufacturing of vehicles, lighting our houses, running our industries. But over and wasteful use of these resources owing to desire to live luxurious life, and ambition to conquer the world brought these precious gifts in n danger.
Types of Natural resources
In the basis of replenishment of resources after their use they are having two types.
- Renewable natural resources
- Non-renewable natural resources
Renewable resource can be replenished after their use. For example, tree, water, wind, sunlight, grasses etc. On the other hand, non-renewable resources cannot be replenished after their use or erosion. For example, soil, rock etc.
Causes of depletion of natural resources
Rampantly growing population and soaring demands of people, pollution of air, water, and soil, deforestation and commercialization of agriculture, uncontrolled minining and industrialization, changing lifestyle of people, carelessness towards nature specially from young generation are some major causes lead to loss of sensitive organism species and loss of their habitats.
Conservation of nature and natural resources
Conservation of natural resources is a way or method of optimum utilization of these resources and avoiding their wasteful and unnecessary use. These are general ways about careful use of these resources in our day to day life activities.
Ways of conservation of natural resources
Here are some simple ways to conserve our natural resources
- Plantation of trees and avoid to cut them.
- Using alternative energy sources like renewable energy resources as solar energy, wind energy, biogas etc.
- Using green energy technology for our houses.
- Harvesting water in draught-prone regions.
- Using advanced methods of irritation for agriculture.
- Protecting vulnerable and endangered species.
- Avoiding unnecessary use or consumption of electricity.
- Changing conventional methods of cropping and adapting newer scientific methods and cropping patterns.
- Avoiding overgrazing of animals on a specific grasslands for longer period.
- Regular exercise and activeness may reduce dependency over the domestic devices, machinaries and vehicles at some extent.
- Using policy of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle will help to conserve natural resources.
Human is a beautiful creation of nature and is endowed with environment, a life supporting system for his survival.
Nature has gifted him the consciousness and the power of brain, but at the same time there is duty on his shoulders to protect and preserve this life germinating system.
Contrastingly, degradation of environment and depletion of natural resources is manifestation of his duties towards natural resources and conservation.
It is the last call of the nature for help, otherwise human has to face the fury of nature in the forms of natural disasters and other ramifications.
Environmental protection measures
Classification of species by IUCN