Forests
A complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form.
What is a Forest?
One way we can use the forest recreationally.
What is camping, hiking, birdwatching, etc.?
Bats use this to hunt for food.
What is echolocation?
The careful, responsible management of something entrusted into one’s care.
What is stewardship?
Something you can install to help bats.
What is a bat box?
How many layers does the forest have?
What are 4? - Floor, Understory, Canopy and Emergent.
Forests remove this from the air, helping keep the environment clean.
What is carbon dioxide?
There are this many species of bats in NL?
What are 3? Little Brown Bat, Northern Long-Eared Bat and Hoary Bat.
The act of taking care of the environment, especially the wildlife habitats which have been entrusted to our care.
What is environmental stewardship?
This species of bat is the only known species in Labrador.
What is the Little Brown Bat?
Grows near the equator with warm temperatures year round. Lots of precipitation which promotes lots of biodiversity!
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
We can use forests to help improve the economy, meaning we have more of this.
What is money?
Bats are this type of animal, meaning they are warm-blooded and give birth to live young.
What are mammals?
We help protect these - which provides everything that an organism needs to survive: Food, Water and Shelter.
What is a habitat?
This many people currently work for SAM.
What is 4? - 3 on the East Coast and 1 on the West Coast!
Located further North than the Temperate forest, before the Arctic Circle. Very short moist and mild to warm summer and long, cold, and dry winter. More snow. Mostly evergreens.
What is the Boreal Forest?
Forest help contribute to this, meaning lots of different life.
What is biodiversity?
Bats are badly affected by this disease.
What is White Nose Syndrome?
Name one of the seven types of wildlife habitat that SAM works to identify, map and conserve.
What is are: Wetlands, Freshwater Shorelines and Riparian Buffers, Atlantic Salmon Habitat, Coastal Estuaries and Beaches, Unique Forest Habitats, Limestone Barrens, and Species at Risk Habitat?
Little Brown Bats are listed as this under the Federal Species at Risk Act in Canada.
What is endangered?
Further North from the equator and experiences 4 seasons with a moderate climate: cold winters/warmer summers. Mostly leafy trees.
What is the Temperate Forest?
Nearly how many people live in the forests in Canada?
What is 300 million?
There are this many species of bats worldwide.
What is 1400+?
Currently we have this many members across the province.
What is 50?
The year that the first SAM Agreement was signed.
What is 1993?