2012 Week 1

Group C's article was about ecotourism, a subject that I previously knew little about. But after their presentation, it is clear that ecotourism is helpful to native people that make a living off of it, but detrimental to the environment as some species may die off. Group D's article was about the implanting of species that are not naturally...

Today I am blogging about some of the articles we have read in class. In Group C's ecotourism article, it was the first time I had ever thought about ecotourism in a negative way. It made me think about how if tourists are not careful, they can cause serious harm to the environment. In group D's article, I learned...

In class we went over 4 different articles; group c, d , e, and f's From group C's article I learned that ecotourism is an extremely effective method of bettering knowledge and attitudes towards endangered species. I assumed that because they increased a particpants awareness of the issue it did not necessarily motivate them to fix it. From group D's article...

Over the course of these two weeks each classmate has worked on a research project with a group and presented an article they used in their research. Today I learned how well artificial reefs are doing. I used to think only real reefs would hold a lot of biodiversity, but one of the groups showed us data that supported...

From the first group, group C, I learned about the negative effects of ecotourism. I learned about how humans in marine environments is not good for it. The humans are destroying the environment by hunting and they are very hypocritical about protecting the environment. From the second group, D, I learned about the harms of invasive alien species on...

Today, four groups presented four different articles about ecotourism, artificial reefs, chronic oil spills, and invasive species. Ecotourism I learned about ecotourism in two very different ways. One consisted mainly about the positives ecotourism brings to the environment and people; however, with so many benefits there are always negative effects. Ecotourism provides jobs for an ample amount of people and...

When I was reading the first article, I learned the the pawi was an endangered species. I also learned that in 2004 global ecotourism grew three times faster than tourism industry. During the time I spent reading group D's article, I learned that 91 of 400 marine species in Pearl Harbor are alien. Another thing that I find out...

The squirrelfish is a bony fish that is related to the ray finned fishes. They feed mostly on benthic invertebrates, and smaller fish. Some of the spines on the fish are poisonous and can inflic Mindful wounds.

In the first article that we went over today, we learned that ecotourism does in fact create awareness, but it does not help the conservation efforts. Ecotourism does little to conserve and some would say that the negatives outweigh the positives. In the second article, we discussed the effects of invasive fish species, like how they can destroy a...