Global Environmental Change

The Beautiful Goose Pond     It was a  crisp fall day shortly after my last class for the week. Wanting to get outside to reset ourselves from a grueling week of classes, we went nearby to a pond to destress. The beginning of the walk was like any other, surrounded by trees and different forms of life the more you walked, the more engulfed you were by the wilderness. The sound of fall leaves crunching below your feet with every step you took it felt like almost a trance that was never ending.      As the sun starts to set below the horizon, my sense of vision was lowered and had to rely more on my other senses. At this point I was completely absorbed by the wilderness, I felt instead of being a foreigner to this land I had now become one with the land. The sounds that were made from other animals had changed from once being intimidating and startling had just become another living thing fending for themselves like myself. On the walk back that same way...

         Protecting The African Spurred Tortoise          The African Spurred Tortoise is a turtle that is mostly found in central  Africa and lives in grasslands and shrublands. They are herbivores and like to eat things such as grass, flowers, weeds, and cacti along with that they can sometimes eat meats if it is left out from humans. Locally they are hunted down and eaten but other than that they are not used as food and are the primary consumers in their habitat. The life cycle of the tortoise includes as adults, males being up to 100kg and 86cm while females average around 67cm. Females fully grow and become adults in around 10-12 years while males take 13-15 years when both start to reproduce. While they can live up to 150 years because of the different things happening in the world the tortoise population is decreasing with the species number " in 1950 estimated to be over 100,000 species around the world...In the late 90s wa...