With the improvement of humans’ technology, damage on nature is not capable to avoid, albeit worse. With the greediness of human, there is more and more destruction in nature, over consume of natural resources. ON the other hand, environmentalists did set up different Green Association as to protect the environment and educate people from damaging the Earth. Through out the years, environmentalist did enquire the government for setting up laws to protect the endangered species and National safari or park to preserve the living environment of the species as to maintain the balance of the ecological system of the rural area.
Discuses about the National Park that Canadian Government authorised, the primo National Safari Banff National Park
Later then, more and more National Park was established. Till now, there are 38 National park and national park resources which consist of 2.25 percent of the land in Canada
Take Algonquin as example, Algonquin is a heat spot of hiking and camping. With its charming scenery, it is crowded with hikers, campers and amateur photographer during the summer. With this numerous amount of visitors, it is crucial to maintain the nature environment. Government and different NGO did do a lot of measures to protect the nature but to those hikers, campers and people who enjoyed the nature, we should follow a "Leave no trace" principle.
Leave No trace,
History on Leave No Trace
is a nonprofit organization in 1994,
But the Leave No Trace concept is over 40 years old.
Concept on Leave No Trace
The Seven principles
PLAN AHEAD AND PREPARE
Identify the expectation of the trip you like,
Choose equipments which are environmental friendly and safety
Be aware to the weather throughout the trip
Have a good meal planing based on Less trash, Light packet wrap, and Low dependence on cooking( campfire)
TRAVEL AND CAMP ON DURABLE SURFACES
Travel on trials
no shortcut should be make as if everyone did this, the durability of the shortcut path will over the limit and it does damage to the environment
Camp on High-use area( mainly authorized as a camp site )
Try not to destroy any vegetation cover of landscape
DISPOSE OF WASTE PROPERLY
Basically follow the regulation of the campsite, not to dispose the waste to any unauthorized area even you see a lot of trash has been placed there
LEAVE WHAT YOU FIND
Don't try to take any rocks or specific structure as they are part of the cultural and the historic structures and artifacts
MINIMIZE CAMPFIRE IMPACTS
As campfire may lead to a hill fire
use lightweight stove as to replace using campfire of any cookery
if it is a crucial part of the camping
clean up after the function
RESPECT WILDLIFE
do not try to interact with the wildlife
any kind of interaction are forbidden, such as feeding, forcing wildlife to flee
BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHER VISITORS
Try to respect others, clean up after camping, leave a neat environment for the next user
(a short video clip on the Leave NO trace)
Benefit of the Concept
better planning results in better guilty of trip
protect the quality of the nature resources
For more details, feel free to visit the Leave No Trace website
i dont know whether it is ok or not
People I did comment on:
Dora Lam
Denise
