Uploaded on 2015-12-14 by studiopuntoylinea

What ecosystem services do you have in and around your living area? Give at least one example for each of the four types of ecosystem services. Make clear in your answer where you can find the ecosystem service and what the ecosystem offers to your living area. To support your answers you are asked to provide one or more images for every example that describe the respective services. **a. Provisioning services:** **Food:** some products are agricultural crops that are in the Savannah and Cundiboyacense Region: potato, corn, wheat, barley, soy, peach, tree tomato, blackberry. Sea products such as fish, shrimp, oysters arrive in Bogota of the Pacific and Caribbean regions. Products like meat come to Bogota from the region of the Eastern Plains and the Caribbean Region. And across the country depending on the fruit harvest time: orange, lemon, watermelon, melon, grapes, passion fruit and others. **Raw materials:** Arrive in Bogota processed products such as wood coming from the Pacific region and Amazonia. **b. Regulating services** **Erosion prevention and maintenance of soil fertility:** In the city where I live there are programs of reforestation, trees are planted in areas that are deteriorating, every tree that is planted is the responsibility of a citizen because he must monitor their care and growth. **c. Habitat or Supporting services** In the city where I live there is an institution of the District Government is the District Department of Environment, this institution is responsible to promote, guide and regulate the environmental sustainability of Bogota, to guarantee present and future welfare of the population; and as necessary for the conservation and use of goods and ecosystem services and biodiversity values requirement. Information Source: http://www.ambientebogota.gov.co/web/sda/mision **La Conejera Wetland Foundation:** Restoration programs, the most successful project has been the recovery of the Conejera Wetland. There was born the environmental movement in defense of wetlands. It has the greatest biodiversity of wetlands in Bogotá. It is the only place in the world where the plant grows Carbonelli Senecio (Margarita de Pantano). It was declared extinct by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute in 1997 and was rediscovered alive in March 1998 in the wetlands La Conejera by biologists La Conejera Wetland Foundation. In 2012 the Ramsar Secretariat selected him as one of the 14 best places in the world for sustainable tourism. ![ingrese la descripción de la imagen aquí][1] Image Source: http://humedalesbogota.com/2012/08/01/plantas-acuaticas-en-los-humedales-de-bogota/ Information Source: http://humedalesbogota.com/humedal-la-conejera/ http://humedalesbogota.com/2012/08/01/plantas-acuaticas-en-los-humedales-de-bogota/ **d. Cultural services** Recreation and mental and physical health: In the city where I live there are many places for the practice of recreational activities: the Simon Bolivar Park, the Third Millennium Park and Park Lake [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1450056491726259.jpg