At a workshop organized by the East Chamber
A specialized workshop organized by the East Chamber held Tuesday, March
22, 2016 titled stressed that(land and sea pollution and their effects on
the environment) that the negative human activity is the main cause for all
cases of land and sea pollution .. calling for activating the formal laws
and regulations to preserve the environment.
And the workshop , which was held at the Chamber of Dammam and was
managed by Chairman of the Environment Committee room Talal Al rasheed
has witnessed viewing two working papers, the first dealt with theme
of land pollution, while the second paper the sea pollution. In the first
paper presented by Ahmed Al bouqof Saudi Wildlife Committee talked about the
term (diversity BCF), a diversity or richness of life at all structural levels
(molecular and genetic, species and ecosystems), which is a primary
renewable resource provides us with natural resources; food, water, wood,
energy, and medicine, resulting in a number of services including air, water
and soil fertility purification and waste disposal, pest control, as well as
aesthetic pleasure
and regarding the main reasons for the loss of biological
diversity, Al bouqof said that although the phenomenon of extinction is
natural, but the human activities are the primary threaten to the extinction of
some species and beings, and the most prominent negative human
activity is the hunting and unjust exploitation, which leads to the
deterioration of environment and losing them as a result of human
pressures on them, as well as chemical pollution that comes from human effort
also causes a destruction that is difficult to compensate for the types of
environments.
He pointed that due to pollution, 4763 species of mammals in the world group 87
species became extinct 0.1130 species of which an increase (24%) threatened
with extinction, and in the Arabian Peninsula, 93 species of mammals, including
14 kinds recorded, and 12 species of mammals settling in the Arabian Peninsula,
which have no place but this region include two of bats, and one of the
rabbits, and five of the rodents, and one of the carnivores and three
parasites, all are exposed to the threats of overfishing and overgrazing has
become extinct, some no longer exist, such as Asian lions, Asian
leopards, Saudi deer, zebra,. There are also 501 species of birds registered in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 31 of which are threatened with extinction
(globally and locally), and in the Kingdom more than 2250 species of
herbs, including the existing 244, it is believed that 147 varieties of the
latter species is endangered, and 574 endemic and endangered species. He
stressed that all human activities that lead to an increase or adding
material or new energy to the environment where this energy works or materials
to endanger human life or health or living or welfare or natural sources of
danger either directly or indirectly, stressing that the kingdom grows quickly
and develops in various fields, but the acceleration of the pace of development
with the ignorance of the environmental affect studies could lead to
negative effects that are difficult to correct regarding
biodiversity.
The second paper (sea pollution) was presented by Khalid Al sheikh (of Saudi
Wildlife Committee, too) said that the sea environment of great importance in
the ecosystem of the vitality, it is featured by contact of its parts a
free naturally contact that allows interaction and influence among its parts,
sea environment has a prominent role in achieving climate balance, through a
high degree of heat at the surface and the coldness at the bottom, which
enables it to absorb a large amount of sunlight reaching the earth, and then
evaporates part of this water into the atmosphere by the rising wind,
collecting them as clouds hurtling toward land causing rain that is
representing a water source to other species on land. He added that the
sea environment is a source of food for humans and the rest of the other species,
that it contains huge amounts of different types of high nutritional value
of sea life is the most important fish. Also it is considered as a source of
important industries and a major transportation, and medical drugs could
be extracted from the sea environment, sea environment is also considered the first
national income in some countries. From here, the sea pollution is a threat to
food security and the economy in general, explaining that
sea pollution is a change in the natural balance of the sea, which may
lead to endangering human health at risk and damaging of the biological
treasures and plants and sea animals and the reduction of sea
entertainment or may lead to disability of other sea legitimate uses,
that comes according to nutrition and Agriculture Organization conference held
in Rome 1970 about human inputting materials in the se
environment that could cause harmful results like harming the biological
treasures and the human health and disturbing sea activities including fishing
and corrupting seawater
He stressed that enormous amounts of pollutants resulting from human activities
due to industrial mutations and massive inflation and attrition unjust natural
resources of the population these pollutants are considered the most damaging
to the sea environment, and enters in this list (oil pollution, sanitation
pollution , biodiversity pollution, pollution and industrial waste and thermal
pollution, contamination with chemicals, and contamination with heavy metals,
and radioactive contamination, and noise pollution. He concluded by saying that
80% of sea pollution is due to human activities. At the end speakers have been
honored .
It is worth to be mentioned that the workshop be is held within the
Committee for Environmental activities in the Chamber.
