The Impact Of Climate Change On Waterfowl

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In the past hundred years, the human race has expanded almost everything in the United States of America, such as our agriculture practices, the size of our cities, and the sheer amount of expansion in business and it has affected one group of animals in particular, waterfowl. Due to these advancements, the human race has caused the climate to change, and according to an research by Jennifer Reilly “Climate change is an global problem that affects all species of waterfowl and the wetlands they inhabit” (Reilly 2017). Humans have impacted the life of waterfowl in such extreme levels of magnitude, that humans have almost become part of waterfowls life. Cites have become almost refuges for geese as mentioned in the study titled Survival …show more content…

My goal is to have a proposed method in how farmers in the United States of America can change their agriculture practices to help benefit waterfowl on their migration, and to help address the issue of agriculture practices benefiting the overpopulation of snow geese as discussed in K.F. Abrahams article, High goose populations: causes, impacts and implications (Abrahams 1997). I also would like to have multiple methods to increase the amount of wetlands we have, and how to revert some of the destroyed wetlands to increase the amount of area waterfowl have to breed in. I would like to have a improved strategy on the methods of controlling the overpopulation of snow geese discussed in Arnaud Bechets article titled, Spring hunting changes the regional movements of migrating greater snow geese where she discusses how the spring season can cause a shift in snow goose migration (Arnaud 2003). Another large aspect I would like to discuss is addressed in Brett E. Doraks study about geese in winter and autumn in the metropolitan Chicago area that waterfowl, primarily geese, are utilizing cities to live in, and remain untouched (Dorak 2017). Through the research in the study, they …show more content…

It’s finally time to stop putting humans first all the time, we need to respect the fact that waterfowl were here first. Simply put, how would a homeowner feel if a family of geese decided to move into their backyard and make a complete mess by interfering with the occupants of the homes daily lives? This is what we have been doing to waterfowl, and it’s time to respect their “home” and to do our best to revert the damage we have

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