Green Diary

LAND CONSERVATION STRATEGIES

sharp distinction is often drawn between acquisition-based and regulation-based approaches to land conservation. These two types of instruments for private land conservation are grounded in differing philosophies on governance and private property rights, administered by separate agencies, and often promoted by different political organizations.

Many valuable sites of historic importance, natural significance and scenic beauty, protected today, would have been developed had it not been for the generosity of individuals, groups and companies who chose to donate their land to one of the public or private organizations which can accept land and assure that it will remain in its natural state. Building and unsustainable agricultural methods will lead to a decline in soil quality that provide humanity with essential services. The most important functions of the soils are living purpose, among other things, food, building materials, clothing and regulation of green water and air.

Land use and soil management is Sustainable in University of Moratuwa

The University of Moratuwa is located close to the bank of the Bolgoda Lake in Katubedda, Moratuwa is the most sought after technological university in Sri Lanka. It is an urban area so it covered with human made structure.

Land conservation can be defined as the ethic of land use, allocation and protection. Its focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world, its fisheries, habitats and biological diversity.

Conservation is generally associated with the protection of natural resources, while preservation is associated with the protection of buildings, objects, and landscapes. There are lot of land conservation strategies that can be used for conserve the land for the purpose of efficiency usage.

The process of land covering is an important strategy among the land conservation strategies.

Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth. Land covers include grass, asphalt, trees, bare ground, water, etc.

If consider about the university premises of University of Moratuwa there are many more examples for land covering.

There are various kind of land covering methods which are used inside the world. Some of them are using,

§ Grass

§ Asphalt

§ Trees

§ Bare ground

§ water

In university of Moratuwa, there are some methods of land covering that is commonly using such as growing grass, using land tiles to the land floor and concrete bars are some of the examples. The main purposes of using these land covering methods are avoid soil erosion in rainy weather time periods, protecting the land from heavy loads such as vehicles and protecting the soil.

Another method that can be seen under land covering methods is carpeting the land in order to avoid exceeding of load bearing capacity on the soil and protect the land from human made structures.

These land covering methods are very useful as a strategy of land conservation in the university of Moratuwa.

Below pictures will provide examples for land covering methods inside the university premises.