Title: How is Human Activity affecting the Tundra Environment ? - A-Level Geography - Marked by Teachers.com
Headings: How is Human Activity affecting the Tundra Environment ?
How is Human Activity affecting the Tundra Environment ?
Content: This however can be countered by simply allowing visitors to camp anywhere rather than restricting them to one area or campsite .That way the pressure is spread out across the area allowing the plants to sufficiently recover from minor use . The final problem facing the Tundra is the increased traffic which is mainly due to increased tourism and the need to go through the mountain rather than around it . As more and more people yearn to visit the Alps the traffic load has increased and the authorities in the region have had to respond to prevent long traffic jams . Their response has been to build 10 tunnels under the Alps at a massive cost both financially and environmentally . The fumes from the ever increasing traffic have been getting trapped inside the valleys and they cannot be blown away by the anti-cyclonic stable air .This pollution spoils the scenery and beauty of the Alps as the growing layer of fog will soon turn into a permanent haze that is common in busy Chinese cities . Indigenous species of both fauna and flora are also victims of the bad air in the Alps as numbers of both have been steadily lowering over the years . The air quality in the Alps is now so bad the entire region has been added to the list of ecologically endangered areas . The increased traffic has inevitably led to increased noise levels and in an area surrounded by mountains the noise is magnified and travels a longer distance . On flat land the noise from the thousands of cars and trucks rumbling through the tunnels would dissipate after 400m but with the mountainous region it travels for up to 2000m . For local residents this is an increasingly worrisome issue as they are now being forced to deal with bad air,noise and higher tourist numbers which is steadily decreasing their quality of life .