Topic 1: Positive impact humans have on biodiversity

Although humans seem to be the biggest threat towards the environment, it can be assured that the impacts we have are not all bad. It's a new decade, and considering human development we have come to understand the damage we have done to ecosystems and are now trying to fix it.

Organizations such as Green peace, WWF and innovations such as the wind turbine, hydro energy and electric energy are all human thoughts, ideas, passions and methods of backtracking from past environmental mistakes and working towards preserving ecosystems.

Focusing on the organization Green Peace; it is one of the most successful green organizations bent on preserving ecosystems and decreasing our human impact in the environment. Some of it's achievements include:

•  the zero waste policy in Buenos Aires. 
• preserving and saving the Great Bear Rainforest (protection from logging)
• Irish government banning all energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs
• London Dumping Convention bans the dumping at sea of radioactive waste world-wide
• US abandons nuclear testing in Alaska 
• Oil company Shell agrees to bring infamous offshore installation to land for recycling

Green peace has been working on preserving the environment since 1972, and since then have had many a victory. Still, it continues to work vigorously to protect the environment.

Another very successful and global known organization bent on protection of nature is the World Wildlife Foundation. With over 5 million members globally, this organization is one of the leading organizations with a mission to conserve nature. Their goal is to protect natural areas of wild life and the ecosystems that inhabit them.

WWF is also very well known for the protection and projects based on protecting the life of endangered animals. Over the years, human's have over-poached, hunted and sought after animals so much, that these animals (i.e., tiger, rhinoceros, elephants etc. etc) have become virtually extinct. WWF works towards preserving these species and banning human hunting of them, positively impacting biodiversity.

These organizations are run by millions of environmental activists all over the world, trying to make a positive impact towers the worlds ecosystems and preserving its biodiversity - proving that not all human interaction towards the environment is not all negative. 

References: 

http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/index.html

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/victories/

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