Question

How could buffer zones help mitigate the problems of overcrowding, development, pollution, and invasive species in national parks?

Answer 1

Answer: A  buffer zone can be defined as the place covering the core zone, cultural and historical zone, and recreational zone.

Explanation: A typical national parks consists of the above states zones. The human interventions into the national parks is enforcing to have a  national park with buffer zone.

Human beings are constructing homes and building, and running vehicles near the natural parks which is affecting the life of the species inside the national park.

So, there must be a zone surrounding all the zones to isolate the national park due to human interventions.

Answer 2

Answer:

These buffer zones act as separators

Explanation:

Buffer zone is basically an area that is left intentionally between two land that have different land uses. Therefore, different land parcels with in a national park having different usages are kept separated from each other so that the activities happening in one land parcel shall not affect the activities of other land parcel

Hence, in this way problems such as overcrowding , development, pollution etc. in one land parcel does not reach /affect /or deteriorate the land or environment of other land parcel.