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Overexploitation of Valuable Natural Resources
The problems here are related to poor land use,
especially the farming of hillside areas and wetlands, the construction of
poorly designed roads, unregulated fishing, and excessive exploitation of
valuable moist tropical forest species and the destruction of plant cover
in fragile areas, causing erosion and land degradation. The result is a
loss of potential income from agriculture, fishing and tourism, a threat
to biodiversity and the natural productivity of the ecosystem, and a
change in coastal and inland waterway dynamics. There are signs that three
marine and freshwater species are being over exploited: Carcharhinus
leucas, locally called "bull shark" or "freshwater shark" because of its
unique behavior of migrating between the Caribbean Sea and Lake Nicaragua;
Macrobrachium carminus or freshwater shrimp; and Panalirus argus or spiny
lobster.
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