Antarctica Human Impact.

Antarctica Human Impacts Antarctica is often thought as a pristine land untouched by human body. Unfortunately for a little more than a hundred years, people have been travailing to Antarctica.

More recently attitudes have changed as people begin to realise all over the world, that there are little unvisited places left on Earth and they have enormous value to humanity/the environment.

Antarctica is believed to have many mineral treasures such as coal, iron ore, copper, gold, uranium, and platinum. People in Antarctica also dig up oil and natural gas. In Antarctica many Antarctic treaty places are conceded that large-scale commercial mining in Antarctica might cause environmentally damage. Mining would be difficult in such a fragile and hard area. Antarctica has high transport costs, and the icy Antarctica would make work very difficult.

With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to the Antarctica go either as tourists or as part of national scientific programs. The affected area surrounding a base is called it’s ecological footprint. Some larger bases in Antarctica have researchers to assess the ways Antarctica’s bases and scientific research can effect of the environment.

At some locations mostly around long-standing research stations, evidence of past human activity is clear, and, as Antarctica tourism ceases, the pressure on the environment can only grow.

With the exception of those involved in fisheries, most visitors to Antarctica go either as tourists or as part as atticitis undertaken and the potential environmental impacts are common to all visitors. Although nearly three times as many people visit Antarctica as tourists (14,000) go as part as the national program far exceeds the number of tourists Internationally ,Australia has taken a leading role in promoting environmental protection with in the Antarctic treaty system since it’s interception.

Hunting for animals like whales, penguins and seals leaded people to the Antarctic in the early years of the 19th century and with in only a couple of decades, ten years caused no crases in wildlife populations.

Fishing is the only large-scale commercial resource harvest currently undertaken in the Antarctic treaty area. Now sealing and whaling have effectively ceased/stopped by humans in Antarctica.

Whaling was banded in 1982. However the international whaling commission still allows Japan, Iceland and Norway to take a small amount of minke whales in Antarctica.

Antarctica krill are small open-ocean crustaceans (shrimp like creatures). Krill harvesting in Antarctica is controlled to prevent over krilling and to ensure there are enough krill to sustain the southern ocean ecosystem.

People are now aware that Antarctica needs to be protected.
Human impacts have become issues/problems for the management of Antarctica.