User:Will Engle/Sandbox

Topics

• 2. Biofuels: green economy initiative or more business as usual?
• 4. Cultural Keystone Places: Conservation and Restoration in [a named] cultural landscape
• 5. Do suburban golf courses have conservation value? Arguments for and against
• 6. Ecological and social costs of cotton farming OR single use plastic bags OR single use coffee cups and what can
• 8. Fort McMurray, Alberta, and the fires of climate change
• 9. Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site: history and consequences for co-management
• 10. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking): social and environmental costs in Alberta (or Oklahoma or another site)
• 11. Illegal logging in [a named country]: drivers of and environmental and social consequences
• 12. Keystone species and their role in a named ecosystem: conservation status
• 15. Monsanto and ‘Terminator’ seeds
• 16. Octopus fishery management in Madagascar
• 17. Pesticide poisoning in the Global South
• 18. Rainforest, Oil, and Indigenous People in Ecuador: the Yasuní-ITT Project, Ecuador
• 21. The drastic decline in African elephant populations: possible causes and consequences
• 22. The environmental impact of meat consumption
• 23. The growing dietary dependence on foreign crops: drivers and risks
• 24. Indigenous homelands in Yellowstone National Park (or another protected area): paying the costs of conservation
• 25. The opposition of the Standing Rock Sioux to the North Dakota Oil Pipeline, USA
• 26. The re-wilding movement in [a named place]: what are we learning?
• 29. Environmental costs and benefits of supermarket insistence on cosmetically perfect fruits and vegetables.
• 31. Urban architecture to aid bird conservation.
• 32. How street trees can save our cities.
• 33. Arguments for and against marine aquaria and zoological gardens in urban settings.
• 35. Urban heronries / pelicans on telephone poles OR eagle nests on power poles: encourage or discourage?
• 36. Urban opinion massively supports winter feeding of wild deer in urban Chicago (or another named town/city). Arguments for and against.
• 37. Invasive species are an increasing problem in both urban and rural areas. Select four counter-measures and explain why these are or should be priority actions in urban areas.
• 39. How are alligator skin handbags in high-fashion stores good for reptile conservation and how are they negative for reptiles?