Outdoor recreational activities provide both benefits and risks to human health and the environment. While they can improve physical and mental well-being, promote social skills, and boost local economies through tourism, recreational activities also carry dangers like injuries, pollution, and habitat destruction if not properly managed. Environmental education and sustainable practices like eco-tourism are needed to maximize benefits and minimize harm.

2. OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
THEIR EFFECTS ON HUMAM AND ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
By Warda Irfan

3. RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY
Recreation is an activity of leisure,
leisure being discretionary time.
Recreational activities are often
done for enjoyment, amusement,
or pleasure and are considered to
be "fun"

4. Outdoor
Recreational
activity
•Outdoor recreation refers to recreation engaged in out of
doors, most commonly in natural settings.
•Are undertaken outside the confines of buildings
•Can be undertaken without the existence of any built facility or
infrastructure
•May require large areas of land, water and air

5. RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY
•Hunting
• Fishing
•Trapping
•Camping
•Picnicking
•Bicycling
• Horseback riding
•Motorcycling
•Operating a vehicle.
Recreational activities vary from person to person.

6. Purpose of Recreation
Outdoor activity under-
taken for the purpose of
exercise
Relaxation or pleasure,
including practice or
instruction

7. TOURISM
According to the United Nations
World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO), tourism entails the
movement of people to countries
or places outside their usual
environment for personal or
business/professional purposes.
These people are called visitors.

8. IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM
In total, Travel & Tourism
generated US$7.6 trillion (10.2% of
global GDP).
 292 million jobs in 2016,
equivalent to 1 in 10 jobs in the
global economy.

9. TOURISM IN PAKISTAN
•In 2020, the WTTC (World
Travel and Tourism Council)
mentioned that Pakistan’s
tourism revenue was 19.4
billion US dollars and made
up 7.1% of the GDP.

10. Lahore fort
Lake Sinful Mukluk
Badshahi mosque
Moenjodaro
Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Hawke's Bay Beach, Karachi
Famous tourist destinations in Pakistan

11. TYPES OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Physical recreational activities
Social recreational activities
Cultural recreational activities
Intellectual recreational activities

12. PHYSICAL RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY
•Sports
•Camping
•Hiking
•Running
Recreational activities like sports will develop muscular strength,
agility, power, flexibility, and improve one’s health.

13. SOCIAL RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Seminars
Attending parties
Engaging in group activities develops social skills that will lead to the
development of proper conduct and behavior and social graces.

14. CULTURAL RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Arts and craft
Festivals

15. INTELLUCTUAL RECREATIONAL ACTITIVITIES
Poetry
Short story writing
Answering puzzle
Playing chess, darts
Exhibition

16. VALUES DERIVED FROM RECREATION
1. Mental Health
2. Physical Health and Growth
3. Emotional Stability
4. Social Fitness
5. Psychological Awareness

17. BENEFITS OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
The benefit of participating in various recreational activities are
endless
1) Be happier – feel great
2) Build family unity
3) Improve mental health
4) Control weight, look better, build strong bodies
5) Diminish chance of disease live longer
6) Reduce stress

18. BENEFITS OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
8) Promote sensitivity to cultural diversity
9) Eliminate loneliness – conquer boredom
10) Increase community pride
11) Creativity increase
12) People are able to correctly balance work and play
13) more productive
14) Better chances of being successful
15) build a lifelong positive habit

20. Outdoor recreational activities may cause some unpleasant situations
Traffic Jam
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure
Adverse weather conditions (rain, wind, ice, temperature extremes)
Natural disasters (storms, fire, floods)
Animals and insects
General environment (sharp objects, trip hazards, terrain etc.)
Injuries and accidents
Uncontrolled environments (public places, strangers)

21. EFFECT OF RECRATIONAL ACTIVITY ON ENVIRONMENT
Common adverse effects also include:
Ecological destruction
disturbance of animals
Trampling
Erosion
Wildfires
litter and pollution
Plastic pollution

22. EFFECTS OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY ON MARINE LIFE
The effect of high and selective fishing mortality cause:
Water pollution
size structure
loss of genetic variability
food web changes
Lead containing fishing rods potentially causes
environmental contamination.

23. CONCLUSION
1. All work and no play makes a person not only dull but a sick, unbalanced,
and unhappy individual.
2. Outdoor recreational activities are very beneficial for human health and
important for economic growth through tourism.
3. Outdoor recreational activities may cause some disturbance in
environment.
• Pollution
• Destruction of natural ecosystem

24. PREVENTIVE MEASURES
I. Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 (Act No. XXXIV of
1997). An Act to provide for the protection, conservation,
rehabilitation and improvement of the environment, for
the prevention and control of pollution, and promotion of
sustainable development.
II. Environmental management and planning is necessary for
conservation of natural environment
• Eco-tourism
• Good awareness on protecting the environment

25. REFERENCES
•https://www.tourism.gov.pk
•https://therecreationcentre.weebly.com/negative-effects.html
•https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/outdoor-recreation-faqs
•https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/best-year-on-record-global-travel-tourism-
grows-4-6-in-2017
•https://www.parhlo.com/7-adventurous-activities-you-can-do-in-pakistan
•https://www.visitbritain.org/introduction-tourism
•https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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