Natural resource monitoring and auditing

1. NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING
AND AUDITING

2. SEMINAR DESIGN
Introduction.
Objectives.
Methodology.
Concept of natural resource.
Natural resource monitoring.
Natural resource auditing.
Soil erosion, Genetic erosion and water pollution.
Extension implication.
Conclusion
Reference.

3. INTRODUCTION
• Natural resource monitoring and auditing aims for the
efficient and sustainable utilization of renewable and
non-renewable natural resources.
• Natural resource management refers to human
administration and sustainable utilization of bio-physical
resources for the production of food,feed,fibre and fuel.

4. OBJECTIVES
The seminar objectives are:
To extract or derive the extension policy on natural resource
management.
To promote community mobilization and community participation in
natural resource management.
Estimation of natural resource management in terms of global warming.
To generate sensitized natural resource management,strategy and
implication.
To arouse awareness among people about natural resource
management.

5. METHODOLOGY
• Broad-basing of data and information.
• Consultation of references books and journals.
• Browsing of websites.
• Concept generation.
• Books available in the library.
• Discussion and resolving.
• Sequencing and Resequencing.

6. NATURAL RESOURCE
• Natural resources occur naturally within
environments that exist relatively undisturbed by
humanity, in a natural form.
• A natural resource is often characterized by
amounts of biodiversity and geodiversity existent
in various ecosystem.
• Natural resources are derived from the
environment. Some of them are essential for our
survival while most are used for satisfying our
wants..

7. NATURAL RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT(NRM)
• Natural resource management
refers to the management
of natural resources such
as land, water, soil, plants and
animals, with a particular focus
on how management affects
the quality of life for both
present and future generations
(stewardship).

8. HHHHHW
WHAT ARETHE NATURAL
RESOURCES?

9. IMPACT OF NATURAL RESOURCE
• Natural resources play a big part in countries by their
own or in economy.
• They usually provide a way of earnings.
• The more resources they have the more money and job
oppurtunities the country has ..

10. IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON
NATURAL RESOURCES
Health of forest is threatened.
Water temperature changes.
Extreme weather events like flood, draught,etc.
Melting of ice.
Species’ ideal habitats move. Some species move with the
changes.
Tourism and recreation changes.eg-shorter winter season,longer
summer season.

11. Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the washing or blowing away
(by wind or water) of the top layer of soil (dirt)
CAUSES OF SOIL EROSION
Wind and water are the main agents of soil
erosion. The amount of soil they can carry
away is influenced by two related factors:
•speed - the faster either moves, the more
soil it can erode;
• plant cover - plants protect the soil and in
their absence wind and water can do much
more damage.

12. PREVENTING SOIL EROSION
Contour
ploughing
Wind breaks
Unploughed
grass strips
Decaying
plant and
animal
remains
Avoiding
overgrazing.
Over-use of
crop lands.

13. GENETIC EROSION
Genetic erosion refers to the process in which
a plant or animal species faces a gradual or
drastic diminishing or complete loss of its
unique gene pool.
A gene pool is a complete set of unique alleles
that occur in the genetic matter of all
members of a particular species.

14. CAUSES OF GENETIC EROSION
In Animals In Plants
Habitat loss. Habitat loss.
Habitat fragmentation. Over grazing.
Geographical barrier. Replacing local variety.
Inbreeding depression. Cultivation of same HYV/Hybrid variety.
Restriction to certain area. Modern agriculture(monoculture).

15. MANAGEMENT OF GENETIC EROSION
More
cultivation of
indigenous
variety.
Crossing of
hybrid
variety with
indigenous
variety .
Maintaining
of
indigenous
pure line.
Conservation
of
endangered
variety.

16. WATER POLLUTION
• Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies
like lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater.
• Water pollution occurs when pollutants are directly or
indirectly discharged into water bodies without
adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.

17. Some pictures showing water pollution

18. CAUSES OF WATER POLLUTION
Industrial waste products.
Washing off of fertilizers and
pesticides.
Sewage and
Sludge.
Leakage of Oil
mines.
Plant and
animal debris.

19. CONTROL OF WATER POLLUTION
Repair and replacement of leaking
and malfunctioning equipment.
Increasing overall hydraulic capacity of the
sewage collection system.
Proper drainage facility of industry
to a certain place.
Proper filtering/treatment of industrial
effluent before reaching to water bodies.
Tree plantation to check the run
off.

20. Agricultural wastewater
• Nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus)
applied to farmland as commercial
fertilizer.
• Animal manure.
• Spraying of municipal or industrial wastewater
(effluent) or sludge.
• Crop residues.
• Irrigation water.
• Atmospheric deposition.

21. MONITORING:IN NATURAL RESOURCE
 In natural resources, monitoring is the repeated measurement
and analysis of data to evaluate changes in the characteristics
of a given feature with the goal of meeting a
particular management objective .
 Alternatively, we may monitor the resource to determine if
specific conditions exist that might create opportunities for
specific management practices.
 Monitoring should be flexible.Both the methods and the
objectives should be sufficiently flexible.

22. Why we Conduct Monitoring?
 Achieving natural resource management objectives.
 To modify ineffective actions.
 To provide non-biased information to make well informed management
decisions.
 Determine the status and temporal trends in population sizes and distributions
over time (e.g., evaluate invasiveness)
 Determine effects of invasive plant species on biota and processes of the
ecosystem
 Measure success of restoration and revegetation projects.
 Measure success of best management practices (e.g., during road and building
construction, fire-fighting, etc.)

23. Four key priorities to achieve this:
 Monitoring, evaluating and reporting of the condition of,
and pressures on, our natural resources.
 Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the short- to
medium-term outcomes.
 Developing and enhancing collaboration with NRM
partners which include catchment management
authorities, Department of Primary Industries, Department
of Primary Industries Crown Land Division and the Natural
Resources Commission.
 Improving data acquisition, management and sharing
arrangements.

24. Environmental Performance Indicators
• Quantified information presented as aggregated data to
provides decision-makers and interested parties with an
indication of performance trends. An important objective of
such indicators is to provide a summary set of statistics to assess
how performance is progressing towards stated targets and to
assist decision-making.
Environmental performance indicators can be
presented as:
 Absolute measures (e.g. total energy use)
 Relative/normalised measures (e.g. energy use per unit of
output)

25. INTERDEPENDENCY:MONITORING,MODELLING AND
RESEARCH

27. RESOURCE AUDITING AND
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
• The objective of the natural resource auditing
was to determine whether the Ministry of
Natural Resource management is achieving its
objectives or not.
• Environmental stewardship refers to responsible
use and protection of the natural environment
through conservation and sustainable practices.

28. • Environmental Auditing
 REIA : RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS
• A systematic, documented verification process of objectively
obtaining and evaluating audit evidence to determine whether
specified environmental activities, events, conditions, management
systems, or information about these matters, confirm with audit
criteria, and communicating the results of this process.
• Environmental audits may assess compliance against with e.g.
– Environmental laws and standards
– A company’s environmental management system (eg ISO 14001)
– A company’s environmental/sustainability report

29. Different types of environmental
stewards
There are 3 types of environmental stewards:
• Doers - Doers go out and help the cause by taking action.
• Donors - A donor is the person that financially helps the
cause.
• Practitioners -They work on a day-to-day basis to steer
governmental agencies, scientists, stakeholder groups, or any
other group.
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30. HOW WE CAN MANAGE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES

31. EXTENSION IMPLICATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCE MONITORING AND AUDITING:
• Natural resource management needs community
participation.
• Community auditing helps better management of
natural resource.
• Resource consuming and recycling needs a new
extension implication.
• Ecological issues and Climate Change are fast
becoming the integral part of extension management.

32. CONCLUSION
 Monitoring and auditing on natural resource management lead to a better
conservation, recycling and exploration of resource for sustainable
development.
 People’s participation in monitoring and auditing would lead to generate
verifiable indicator, which again can contribute to formation of different
resource monitoring models.
 Transformation extension in envisaging more of relegating participation into
the resource monitoring process.
 On the offing of climate change,the resource monitoring and resource
management will be the most critical function to combat and mitigate the
brand of global warming and climate change.
 Micro level policy need to be generated to forms grass root monitoring team
aiming at best utilization of local resource and here extension has to play the
pivotal role.

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