Disney World in Florida wants to expand onto a Wetland. It has offered to buy an
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Question
Disney World in Florida wants to expand onto a Wetland. It has offered to buy and preserve a large nature preserve in a different area to make up for the wetland it is destroying. Based on what you have learned about wetlands, is that reasonable? What conditions would make it reasonable or unreasonable?
Suppose further that the wetland being destroyed and its replacement area both contain several endangered species (but different ones). How would you compare different species against each other? How many plant or insect species would one animal species be worth?
Explanation / Answer
Although Disney world buy and preserve a large nature preserve in a different area to make up for the wetland it is destroying, It is not reasonable to destroy the present wetland. It destroys habitat for wildlife. Vegetation in wetlands naturally clean the water, removing wetlands means that water will be more polluted. Wetlands also help control flooding
We need to see the relationship between the different endangered species in the replaced area, the balance between predator and prey system is important for the maintenance of animal population in the forest area, any imbalance in the relationship between these endangered species may lead to the extinction of some species from the area. Largely the climate, soil type, natural features and climate are the factor which influences the type of species which are going to survive in these areas and we need to have proper understanding about the global distribution of these species and biomes and how they are going to survive in the provided conditions. Plants and animals will have suitable characteristics which will allow them to survive in particular conditions or biomes and knowing their adaptive features will help us to understand to what extent they are going to adapt to these new conditions. Plants or insect species going to provide food for the animals living in any area, when we can preserve these plants or insect species it will automatically will help us to preserve the animals residing on these resources.