http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908310347
Read the following article. Please write a short response that includes the following points:
1.) Your personal feelings on the issue. Is the water company right? Turtles right? More investigation needed? How would you handle it if you were the water company in charge of the project?
2.) Identify how the study of zoology is important in this real-life situation.
3.) If the project is permitted, would could be the future impact on the turtle population along the canal? Do you think that the population would be selected for specific traits due to changes in the environment? If so, what types of traits might these be?
It sounds like a petition to the DNR is in order. That office could slow down Veolia and at least get community input, if not call for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). That gives us time to rally.
ReplyDeleteIt also sounds like Veolia had some money to spend and came up with an uncreative, uncooperative way to spend it. This means that as much as saving turtles, a longer-term lesson about environmental and community responsibility, taught to Veolia, could be the result.
It would be worth asking the DNR about alternative ways to improve canal flow without paving over a whole local population.
My personal feelings on this issue are simple and logical. The water company knows the environmental damage they would be causing which is why they are trying to push through this as quick as possible. They want to get it done without as much public opinion and input as possible. What Veolia is doing is wrong an they should not be able to get away with it. If the plan goes through they would be destroying a plethora of wild life including a hot spot for over 500,000 bikers and runners.
ReplyDeleteIt didnt include in the article that we are in dire need of Veolia's water; therefore, I am compelled to believe that we don't need this. I agree with Kip in that a petition is in order. I I was in charge of the company I would definitely find an alternative more environmental way.
The study of Zoology is important here in understanding the influence this vast environmental change can have on the inhabitants.
If prohibited, there are a few effects this would have on the turtles. The turtles could die off slowly, reduce in numbers, or adapt to the changes. Alot of their offspring this year would be eliminated due the construction so my thoughts would be that the turtles would have to evolve to find a different way to reproduce. Or, they could find a better place to reproduce and become less dependent on the canal.