The moist tropical forest: Its conversion and protection |
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Authors: | Robert T Perry |
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Institution: | (1) Environmental Studies Program, The City University of New York, Klapper Hall 137th St. and Convent Ave, 11217 New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Though strong concern over the rapid conversion of moist tropical forests may justifiably arise from any discipline, a growing
interdisciplinary tide of voices is expressing its alarm over a particularly disturbing consequence of forest alteration and
destruction: the reduction of species diversity through the extinction of numerous plant and animal species. Consequently,
an array of ecologists land-use planners, botanists, zoologists and conservationsts are searching for means to enhance the
protection and preservation of tropical forests' biotic diversity. Management schemes aimed at achieving this particular end
are being investigated, particularly by UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) Project 8 of Biosphere Reserves Projects, by the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) tropical forests conservation program (UNEP,
1980) and by the World Wildlife Fund. In addition, many countries with a significant area of moist tropical forest (MTF) are
beginning to pursue some form of conservation strategy.
Currently Robert T. Perry is a full-time teacher of biology at a private school for a cademically gifted students in the Brooklyn
area. In addition he has designed and is teaching courses in environmental chemistry and ethology to advanced high-schoolers.
He is also an adjunct instructor for the City College of the City University of New York, where he is teaching graduate students
in the Environmental Studies Programme. He graduated in Environmental Conservation from Cornell University, and has a Masters
Degree in Environmental Biology from City University, New York. |
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