Activity 5
Human Impacts and Management
Complete pages 7-9 in the virtual fieldwork booklet for this activity.
Learning Intentions
We are learning:
how attitudes and perspectives to the natural environment at Bobbin Head have changed over time;
to interpret photographs to identify local human impacts and management strategies at Bobbin Head; and
to determine how Bobbin Head has been impacted by humans at a national and/or global scale.
Inquiry Questions:
How have perspectives about the management of the mangroves here changed over time?
What can photographs tell us about the features of a place?
What human impacts are there on the mangroves at Bobbin Head at a local scale? At a national scale?
Changing management perspectives over time
- Aboriginal management of mangroves
Using the photograph (left), identify two ways in which Aboriginal Peoples utilised and managed mangrove environments in the past.
Answer on page 7 of your virtual fieldwork booklet.
Consider how Aboriginal Peoples might use mangroves today (eg tourism, continued connections).
2. Bobbin Head 1899-1947
Using the photographs (left), draw conclusions as to what perspectives people had towards managing the natural environment at Bobbin Head in the first half of the 20th century.
What has been the single biggest impact on the mangrove forests over that time?
Answer on page 7 of your virtual fieldwork booklet.
Human impacts on the mangroves at Bobbin Head
Using the google map and photographs below, complete the table on page 8 in your workbook
Google map of Bobbin Head
Photographs of human impacts on mangroves at Bobbin Head
Photographs of National Park management strategies at Bobbin Head
Climate change impacts
On page 9 of your workbook, predict how the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere in the mangrove forest may change due to the impacts of climate change and sea levels rising at Bobbin Head.