Land Conservation Strategies

Land conservation strategies

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   Land conservation is the process of protecting natural land and returning developed land to its natural state. Due to the fact that some land has only had minor disturbances and other land has been completely destroyed, a variety of techniques are needed to carry out land conservation.

   Land degradation, landslides, soil erosion, desertification are the major threats to the environment due to the expansion of agriculture and constructional activities. Growing population and there ever growing demand has led to the large scale destruction of forest cover and arable lands and has created a fear of losing this natural resources. Therefore the present rate of the degradation of land resources must be checked. So there is an urgent need to conserve the nature. Those needs can be named as to maintain ecological balance for supporting life, preserve different types of bio diversity and to preserve natural resources for the present and future generation.

 Land covering is used as a way of land conservation method. Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth. Land covers include grass, asphalt, trees bare ground, water, etc. which are mainly support to preservation of soil. If consider the methods used in university premises to cover the land, can be named as use grass, blocks, crops , asphalt and some built up areas. Built up areas occupied the larger amount of land covering within the university.

 Above photograph is the place located near to the Designing building, grass and some blocks have been used at there. It helps to enhance the beauty of the nature and also it prevents soil erosion as well rather keeping soil as it is.

 The next photograph is a well-known place located at front of old administration building. Grass has been entirely covered that place. It helps enhance the beauty of the ambiance within the university and also it is a material which enhances aesthetic appearance. It is declared by doctors that walking on grass affects to a healthier life.

 In the present, there is trend to use both concrete and grass to get the all advantages of each materials together. Near the place at Goda canteen that has been used both concrete blocks and grass. Finally it can be said using those both materials are sustainable as it is easy to get both advantages.

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