Threats / Benefits
Threats to the Savanna Biome - - ►Growing populations in Africa, like Kenya and Tanzania.
- ►Farmers destroying large areas of savannah for fields to grow crops on.
- ►Farmers killing predatory animals that roam the areas in which their cattle graze in.
- ►Overgrazing; in which turns the savannah into a desert, also known as desertification.
- ►Poaching
- ►Tourism
Kenya rangers holding a elephants tusk after poaching it.
Benefits from the Savanna Biome -
◄Humans benefit by poaching the animals for food and clothing. They also benefit by cutting down trees for money. Farmers also allow their animals to graze the savanna. The method of farming that the nomads of the Savanna use can be beneficial.
◄Takes CO2 out of the air and gives oxygen
◄Holds-around 25–35 tonnes of carbon above and around 20 tonnes of carbon in roots beneath each hectare.
◄Wildman River region of the NT which were around 70–80 tonnes a hectare for the carbon in trees and roots.
◄These figures are less than for densely forested landscapes which can store more than 150 tonnes of carbon a hectare but much greater than for grasslands.
◄Year-two tonnes of carbon per hectare each year
A group of cattle resting in a Savanna Biome