GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  What does it mean to be an environmentally friendly person? For many, this means recycling your trash, turning off the lights when you leave the room, or using an energy-efficient car. These are all great ways to make your mark on the environment, but at the end of the day, there’s only so much one person can do to mitigate pollution and destruction of the natural world around them. Fortunately, Canada has made strides in recent years to preserve its environment and protect its plant and animal species from destruction and extinction. Here are ten ways you can do your part to help preserve the environment in Canada. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint For as long as humans have been around, we’ve polluted and degraded our natural environment. Now is a great time to change that dynamic. Here are 10 ways you can reduce your carbon footprint and help clean up Mother Nature’s air.  Compost – Recycle – Reuse If you’re making a concerted effort to preserve the environment, it’s worth che...

  Population policy policy is the document prepared by government to modify the way the population is changing either by promoting large families or immigration to increase its size or by encouraging the birth control to reduce it.  The population policy can be implicit or explicit. Explicit population policy set measures of how to directly control population for example by setting the number of children each family should have. Implicit population policy in other hand control population and its variables indirectly. The achievements of both past implicit and explicit Tanzanian population policies include the following. Increased awareness of population issues Fertility, infant and child mortality has declined over time; while the average life expectancy at birth has been going up.  Awareness of HIV and AIDS has reached over 95 percent among men and women above 15 years of age.  Increased awareness of the links and interrelationships between population, resourc...

  Beef cattle farming is an important industry in the United States and throughout the world. Since beef cattle can graze forages in the open range and pastureland, they serve a unique role in providing high quality protein for human consumption from byproducts and forage sources that humans do not consume. Considerable land in the U.S. and the world that will not support intensive crop production, can often times sustain grasses and forages that conserve the land, and produce feeds that cattle can utilize. Beef cattle production is dispersed throughout the U.S., but a significant amount of beef is produced on the rangelands of the Western U.S. The following are factors for the development of beef farming in USA; Good soil which has encouraged the growth of pastures The use of irrigation schemes to ensure constant supply of pastures The presence of good animals varietieties like Aberdeen Angus, Red Angus, polled Hereford and cross breed zebu Reliable transport and communication n...

  Radio is a channel that allows for the advertised messages to be conveyed through sound to the listeners, with some background music accompanying the message Advantages of Radio Different languages may be used to reach different people It is accessible even to the remote areas that is not covered by other media One can choose the time to advertise to reach the targeted group Able to serve many people at the same time It can be used for both literate and illiterate members of the group The advertisement can be repeated over and over again according to the advertisers needs The music accompaniment may attract many people to listen to the information Can reach even the blind as they are able to hear The message can be conveyed in different languages Disadvantages of Radio Their advertisement does not have any reference It may be more expensive than the print media Poor timing may make the message no to reach the targeted group It may interrupt some programmes to the annoyance of th...

  Re-planting trees in logged areas (silvicultre) Planting new areas with forests (Afforestation) Careful and controlled cutting of trees by selecting only mature trees and avoid harming the young ones. Guard forests against outbreaks of fire. Protect the trees from pests and diseases by spraying them. Control population explosion in order to reduce on problems of population encroachment on forests minimize the industrial wastage of the forests raw materials for example avoid grading pulp from different valuable trees and re-use of waste paper in the production of new print and other interior paper products. RELATED POSTS 9 CONDITIONS FAVOURING IRRIGATION FARMING IN EGYPT 5 CAUSES OF RURAL-RURAL MIGRATION IN KENYA 10 AIMS OF KILOMBERO VALLEY IRRIGATION SCHEME 4 FEATURES OF MAP STATEMENT SCALE 10 ADVANTAGES OF OIL PRODUCTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST 7 DISADVANTAGES OF AIR TRANSPORT 10 PROBLEMS FACING COFFEE FARMING IN KENYA IMPACTS OF POVERTY ON ENVIRONMENT 10 PROBLEMS FACING COTTON FARMI...

  Trans-African highways: African countries have proposed to construct highways across the continent. These highways are intended to improve the quality and volume of international road traffic in Africa. The principal axis is supposed to be from Gaborone to Cairo and from Mombasa to Dakar. International Railways: The presence of landlocked countries in Africa has made railway transport an attractive mode for transporting bulky raw materials to coastal seaports. Regional Economic Co-operation: The establishment of regional economic organizations has created conditions favourable to increasing the quality and quantity of transportation between neighbouring states. Regional economic groups in Africa include the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and PTA among others. Establishment of National Airways: Since the attainment of independence, every African country has established her own national carrier airline. Existing airports have been expanded e.g. Dar-es-Salaam, wh...

  Climate: Most of Botswana receives very little rainfall of between 200mm and 600mm which is not suitable for arable farming. However, this little rainfall allows the growing of pastures and grazing can be done extensively especially as the country is sparsely populated with modern methods. Cattle keeping has successfully fit in this climate. Relief: Most of Botswana is mountainously flat which is an advantage to cattle keeping industries. As a result, there is easy movement of cattle in search for water and pastures. Also the cattle keepers easily transport their cattle to the industries. Availability of pasture and water: Botswana has grassland region ideal for cattle keeping. The cattle grazing is done on natural pastures on extensive scale. An added advantage is the presence of some water courses particularly seasonal rivers in the eastern part which are source of water. There is extensive land available for the keeping of animals. This is because Botswana is sparsely populate...