Natural resources and its influence on recreation and spiritual values

1. Natural Resources
and Recreation and Spiritual
Values

2. Recreational Value
Natural resources provided recreational activities to both locals and tourists in a given
country such as:
 The seas used for diving and snorkelling, surfing and power sailing and whale-
watching and sea-bathing
 Beaches for filming and parties
 Climbing and hiking mountains and hills
 Rainforests for ziplining, hiking, canopy walkway
These activities may be leisure, but the natural resources give its country exposure for
investors and tourists to obtain economic benefits

3. Seas
Grenada Underwater
Sculpture Park off
Molière/Beausejour

4. Beaches
Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse
of the Black Pearl
filmed at Port Royal
Jamaica
Other locations include:
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines, Dominica
and the Bahamas

5. Mountains
Hikers observing
surroundings at the
Pitons in St. Lucia

6. Rainforests
Canopy-walkway in Guyana’s
rainforest

7. Spiritual Value
Many religions use the environment as a sacred and spiritual
resource; offerings, worshipping etc. e.g.
 Hindus planting jhandi (ceremonial) flags, prayer and
funerary sites by the sea and rivers
 Christians used the sea and rivers also for water baptism and
other symbolic acts

8. Jhandi
Hope Coast flags in
Guyana

9. Water baptism in the
Caribbean Sea, Cuba

10. Bibliography
Environmental Science CAPE Unit 1 Study Guide; Nelson Thornes
http://latin-america.photoshelter.com/image/I0000u8lSS52kcts
https://hiveminer.com/Tags/jhandi/Interesting