Biodiversity Action Plan

increased my appreciation and respect strongly for my desert in many ways. It first started with learning how I can participate in helping clean our desert. This lead to wanting to know how my actions helped the desert. When I found that I really do affect the desert positively, it helps to appreciate my actions. During this time I learned how the desert in turn helps me continue in existence. I was glad to see how proper application of work, knowledge, and determination can help in…

100 years ago the number of orangutans were estimated to be around the 230,000, but now that number has dropped drastically. There are only thought to be 54,000 Bornean orangutans left, and 6,600 Sumatran orangutans remaining. Which makes a total of 60,600 orangutans left in existence. With the population suffering from a 75% drop in just 100 years, the rate of decline is unsustainable and the orangutans are in grave danger of ceasing to exist. This is all due to illegal poaching, trading, and…

Essay 5: The Amazon and its Impacts In order to understand the importance of the Amazon River, we need to understand that it is so much more than just another flowing body of water. The health of the planet depends on the Amazon making it one of the most valuable places in the world. The river and the basin that it has created and travels, effects a huge body of vegetation, people, and animals. The Amazon benefits a new and evolving culture, allows continuing diversity in people,…

and cleared to make way for agriculture, housing, roads, pipelines and other hallmarks of industrial development. A large contributor to these ecological problems faced today is the people who reside in the United States and Canada. Without a strong plan to limit these countries effect, important ecological habitats will continue to be lost. The northern bird population is an example of a population directly…

Nutrias are omnivores they maintain a diet mainly consisting of plant matter. This is bad news to the invaded environment and its occupants. They tend to invade different types of wetlands primarily, and don't mind leaving behind a mess. They do considerable amounts of damage to the ecosystem in which they reside. Nutrias are also notorious for "ravaging" human-grown crops/gardens. I specify the term ravaging because nutrias don't consume nearly as much as they damage. Although, they ideally…

Cottontail rabbits, the most abundant small-game animals in the county, prefer bushy areas interspersed with cropland and pasture. cottontail rabbits occur in greatest numbers in the southwestern part of of the westmoreland county, 2. Gray squirrels, they are the second in abundance among the small game animals. They generally prefer the edges of woodland. They are most plentiful where black oak, red oak, and chestnut oak are dominant They are also numerous where cornfields are…

We are given the question which factors affect the stability of a Predator-Prey Population. Our goal is to find what factors could change a species population. A stable ecosystem means that a plant or animal does not overpopulate or underpopulate.. If the ecosystem is unstable, then a specie will grow largely, and another one would grow small. Our group collected how the population changed overtime and see if one specie goes extinct in our experiment. We put the experiment on a specific time…

={Endangered cheetahs}= There are some species that are endangered. One of those species are a Cheetahs. Cheetahs are currently endangered. Cheetahs are endangered because farmers are taking the lands they live on, Poachers are killing them, and they have a lack of prey. Cheetahs need our help! Framers taking land One reason why cheetahs are endangered is because farmers are taking up the land that they live on. According to newsela they said” Wild Grasslands is increasingly being turned…

Morongo preserve. My semester project was to clean the Morongo preserve. I went with my friends sergio and anthony to the preserve. We were all meeting up at the preserve around 8:00 am. My friends and I were suppose to do this for a semester project in MS Zacks class. This was all possible because my mom took the time to drive me to the Morongo Preserve drop me off and pick me up after. The ecological perspective of my project is that the animals who lived near the preserve won't be affected…

functions that helps the environment. They provide flood control, absorption of pollutants, improvement of the water quality, collection of stormwater for irrigation, and edible food. Wetlands also provide a habitat for multiple species, increasing the biodiversity. (Department of environment and energy 2016). The catchment area of the Urrbrae wetland is around 400 hectares which is a large amount considering the wetland itself is only 6 hectares. The annual catchment runoff is 360…