Biodiversity Under Threat
DUR: 40 mins
YEAR: 2011 / KS 3-5
Product Code: BIOD
Resource bank of video clips, interactive maps, student activities and teachers' notes.
Bangladesh's Sundarban Mangroves is one of the world's most bio-diverse areas and home to the endangered Bengal Tiger. This interactive DVD resource bank looks at why the Sundarbans is so important: as a bio-diversity hotspot, as a carbon bank and as protection against the impacts of tropical cyclones. It examines the threats, including climate change, shrimp farming, poaching and tiger killings. It then explores how they can be sustainably managed and by whom. Case studies include; a tiger conservation project, eco-tourism and government initiatives to control resource exploitation.
Recommendations/Endorsements
Endorsed by Edexcel for use with their Geography GCSE B specification and for their GCE Geography specification
Endorsed by OCR for use with their GCE Geography specification
Testimonials
“A hugely beneficial resource for Geography departments to engage their students and to provide them with exciting, visual and up to date case study materials which help them to prepare for examinations from GCSE to A level and IB. I will use this title for revision of mangroves for the IB group”
Trish West,
Geography Department, The Redmaids' School, Bristol
A great case study which was not only different, but made clear the links to how using the forest sustainably benefitted everybody involved. Clearly laid out with clear use of titles and it was good to have the option to watch it in sections or in its entirety. The geography terminology used throughout made it relevant to A level and accessible to GCSE. There was a balanced approach looking at strategies to improve the area, including ones that worked and ones that didn't, eg tourism. The resource also contained some excellent maps which saves a lot of time looking for them. Overall an interesting, focused case study that pupils will remember.
Janet Neil,
Redland High School, Bristol
Suggested exam board specification links
Edexcel |
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| GCSE Spec B | Unit 1 Topic 3 | Biodiversity under threat |
| Unit 3 Topic 7 | Oceans on the edge | |
| Unit 2 Topic 1/2 | Population dynamics/Consuming resources | |
| Unit 2 Topic 4 | Making a living | |
| iGCSE | Section A | Coastal Environments |
| Section C | Fragile Environments | |
| GCE | Unit 3 Topic 3 | Bio-diversity under Threat |
| Unit 3 Topic 5 | Bridging the development gap | |
AQA |
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| GCSE Spec A | Unit 1 Section 1 | Living World |
| GCSE Spec B | Unit 3 Section B | Investigating Global Tourism |
| GCE | Unit 3 Option 1 | Eco-systems changes and challenges |
WJEC |
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| GCSE Spec A | Unit 2 Topic 9 | Living Things |
| Unit 2 Topic 10 | Tourism | |
| GCSE Spec B | Theme 2.3 | Changing Eco-systems |
OCR |
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| GCE | Unit F762 | The Growth of Tourism |
| Unit F763 Option A2 | Eco-systems and Environments under Threat |
Related Titles
Issues in Globalisation:
Environmental Impacts and Sustainability



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