This document discusses various natural resources like water, forests, minerals, land, and energy. It outlines threats to these resources such as pollution, deforestation, mining activities, soil erosion, and depletion of non-renewable energy sources. Some remedies proposed include improving efficiency, identifying new resources, education, reforestation, sustainable mining practices, biological and mechanical land management techniques, and increasing the use of renewable energy. The role of individuals is important in the conservation of natural resources through practices like recycling, reducing consumption, and utilizing renewable options.

1. Role Of Individual In Conservation
Of Natural Resources

2. Natural Resources
 The resources that are derived from the environment
are called as natural resources.
 Some of them are most essential for our living while
most of them are used for satisfying our needs.
 They are used to promote the man kind.
 Every man made item consists of natural resources.
 Sun is the major natural resource which never ends.

3. Types of Natural Resources
 They are mainly classified into 6 types:
 1.Water Resources
2.Forest Resources
3.Mineral Resources
4.Land Resources
5.Energy Resources
SOIL
BIODIVERSITY
WATER
FORESTS

4. Water Resources
 Water pollution:
1.The main problems of pollution that need to be addressed in the country are
the following:
 Pollution from domestic sewage
 The high rates of drinking water and drainage
 The general lack of sewage treatment plants.
 The discharge of large quantities of untreated sewage at specific points of
the water resource systems or along the coastline constitute the main water
pollution source in our country

5. Remedies for depletion of Water
resources
 Improvement of efficiency in water use.
 Identification of water resources.
 Technical training and education about water .
 Information about water resources and flood mitigation.
 Several programs are implemented such as
 1.Integrated development and use of water resources .
 2.Drinking water supply and sanitation

6. Forest Resources
Forest : land occupied with wide range of flora and fauna which
supports ecosystem.
 Uses : 1. They give us wood for different purposes.
2. They are used in medicines .
3. They give fuels like fossil fuels , coal.
4. They have commercial use like honey ,
gum , lac , paper.
5. they provide 30% of oxygen.

7. Threats
 Mainly two types of threats are present.
1.Natural disasters
2.Man induced threats
 Forest fires

8. Reasons
for depletion of Forest resources
 Over-consumption/excessive or unnecessary use of resources
 Non-equitable distribution of resources
 Overpopulation.
 Slash and burn agricultural practices, currently occurring in many developing countries.
 Technological and industrial development.
 Erosion
 Habitat degradation leads to the loss of Biodiversity.
 Irrigation
 Mining for oil and minerals.
 Aquifer depletion.
 Forestry Forest Reserves within a particular country.
 Pollution or contamination of resources.

9. Control Measures
 Controlling deforestation :
 Efforts to control deforestation must be taken on a global scale.
 In addition to making sure that emissions from deforestation are kept to a
minimum, an effort to educate people .
 Reforestation is also being encouraged in many countries in an attempt to repair
the damage that deforestation has done.
 Participate in your community's recycling programs. Implement a recycling
program at your office too.
 Buy products manufactured with recycled paper. Many companies use their
reputation as recyclers to attract business from eco-conscious customers.
 Reuse junk mail and scraps of paper whenever possible. Instead of pitching old
envelopes, use them to keep notes or make grocery lists.

10. Mineral Resources
 Minerals : which have definite chemical properties and
indefinite chemical properties .
 There are 2 types of minerals namely
1.Metallic
2.Non-metallic
 Examples for metallic minerals are Iron , gold ,
Alluminium , Silver etc.,
 Examples for some non metallic minerals are Gypsum ,
Lime stone , Coal etc.,

11. Threats to Mineral Resources
1.Mining
2.Disturbences to mantle layer which leads to Earth quakes , drowning
of land.
3.Deforestration –leads to loss of Bio diversity.
4.The acid mine drain-by usage of acids to extraction process which
leads to mix of acids in soil and Aquifer.
5.Loss of marine life due to oil spils while extracting oil.

12. Remedies for depletion of Mineral
resources
 We must go for bio mining where we use microbial organisms
for mining purpose.
 Mining waste treatment technology.
 EOR: This process must be implemented to extract oil by
using bacteria.

13. Land Resources
 Land is an area which constitutes of biotic and a biotic
compounds.
 Due to soil erosion and land degradation soil is being
eroded by agents like wind , water and human
activities .
 Improper agricultural practices like Monoculture and
also introduction of alien species through hybrid
varieties also leads for the erosion of soil.

14. Control Measures
 Two control measures like
1.Biological control
2.Mechanical control are practices .
• In biological control measures
1.Mulching
2.Polyculture
3.Crop rotation must be followed .
 In mechanical control process
1.counter farming
2.terrace farming
3.Step farming must be practiced .

15. Energy resources
 The capacity to do work is known as energy.
 It is divided as 2 types:
1.Renwable
2.Non renewable resources
 There are many disadvantages by using these resources
1.They leads to global warming .
2.They pollute air.
3.Release of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases.
Renewable resources are costly and space occupying
Sun cannot be used in cooler areas.

16. Remedies to control depletion of
Energy Resources
 Use diesel car to reduce your dependence on fossil fuels.
 Go solar to reduce the use of non renewable resources.
 Telecommute.
 Turn your lawn into an organic garden.
 Heat with wood to reduce your dependence on non
renewable resources and fossil fuels.