Impact of overexploitation
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These images and graphs above illustrate some of the many disastrous impacts that overexploitation has on the human and natural environment.
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Causes of Overexploitation
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The main causes of overexploitation are completely human based. Humans use resources at will without thinking about the impact that it may have on the planet in the near or far off future, only thinking of what they want and what they need.
Examples of when humans have exploited something so immensely that it is now gone for good, or completely worse off include the following:
Examples of when humans have exploited something so immensely that it is now gone for good, or completely worse off include the following:
- Overfishing - in some areas (e.g. Newfoundland) species of fish have become extinct or severely endangered because of a boom in the fishing of the species.
- Tourism Industry - in some places, tourism and the complete explosion in the number of tourists has destroyed the natural environment that the tourists came to see in the first place.
- Sporting Events - some sporting events have caused great land degradation due to the construction of stadiums and the destruction of the natural environment. For example, in preparation for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, half of the face of the mountain that was used was destroyed and reshaped.
- Mining - the Super Pit mine (shown above) in Kalgoorlie, WA, is Australia's largest open cut gold mine and its dimensions are 3.5km long, 1.5km wide and 570m deep. The construction of it destroyed countless habitats and species endemic to the area.