This questions are extremely important for researchers to consider when trying to figure out the risk of a species or ecosystem. It makes me wonder how they would be able to tell if a species in an ecosystem were to go extinct would they be able to know if another species in that same ecosystem would take over the role of that extinct species or would they have a harder time surviving.

I feel like this is a very hard task to accomplish. When thinking about animals and even elephants like it previously talks about. Elephants have a massive area that they must take up and migrate through out there days, looking for food and for water to survive. To be able to conserve all of the land they would use would be extremely hard to do and to be able to protect all of it would be even more difficult. Maybe other technologies like drone scouting would be a good idea to put into place to watch the area and keep poachers away.

In todays age I think that more people are being born into settings where they are told and learn to protect forests and the environments around them. Kids nowadays are being raised and taught the importance about climate change and how important it is to take care of our environments so I think that future generations will know the value of the worlds environments and live to see the change and impacts of climate change. Past generations didn't really have to worry to much about the impacts of climate change and the loss of biodiversity/environments but those future generations will.

I think that the idea of agroforestry is a really interesting idea. I found a cool article talking about the different types of systems of agroforestry provided here:

https://www.usda.gov/topics/forestry/agroforestry

It's a really smart idea for systems like forest farming where you would crops that require more shade underneath trees like a multilayered farm.

I had always known that bald eagles were endangered, but I never had known why. Its interesting to learn that the reason is from pesticide poison, I would never had thought of this being the reason for causing it. At least as of now Fish and Game are saying the population is increasing and is one of their least threatened species.

After looking at the IUCN red list, it's crazy to see that there are more than 37,400 species that are identified as being threatened. Also that almost 1/3 of amphibians, mammals, conifers, birds, sharks and rays, reef corals and crustaceans are threatened and the percentages seem to be increasing as the weeks go by.

Its crazy how this accidental introduction of the brown tree snake caused so much damage to the ecosystems in Guam. Its thought that the U.S. military had accidentally brought it over and the populations have thrived ever since. Since the elimination of the bird species on the island they have shifted diet focuses towards mostly rats and lizards in the area, and also domesticated birds. This is becoming a bigger issue for farmers that have lots of domesticated birds as these snakes are targeting these areas and are dangerous to humans because of their venom.

I feel like fire management is going to become even more of a priority than it already is in very dry areas, and now including how much climate change is affecting temperatures. In areas like California this will be even more tough to control, as controlled fires are needed in some environments to preserve species and for plant reproduction. As climate change increases temperatures and causes areas to become drier this may be a harder task to accomplish and can cause bigger and faster spreading of fires.

This is a very serious matter and can have very extreme effects on marine environments like coral reefs. Shell developments will be take a lot longer, because extra energy will be needed to be used to work off the acidity instead of putting it towards building their shells. This can also affect fish and cause blood problems, where they have to spend more energy in changing its PH levels back to normal.

If over half of the crop yield is destroyed I wonder how much money these farmers are losing out on. In current environment issues we read some articles about how foreign investors are looking to places like Africa to buy land and to cultivate it for farming to then export the crops/products back to their home country. This makes me wonder how these bugs are affecting their crop yields and what they are doing to fight them off.

Due to settlers gaining access to better technology and sport hunting becoming popular, buffalo herds were greatly affected. According to an American Praire Reserve in MT, by the end of the 18th century it was estimated that only 360,000 bison were left in North America. Now today their are around 31,000 bison left in conservation herds. They also state that most of the bison alive today are only for commercial purposes, which is kind of sad to think about.

This is why agriculture is one of the main impactors of habitat loss and loss in population diversity. Human have a huge impact on our environments, examples being logging and farming, tearing down environments and greatly reduces diversity of species. Industrial runoff of factories can also impact environments and animals. I remember reading an article about how bees were consuming red 40 from the water that had a factories runoff in it. The red 40 the bees were consuming changed the color of the honey comes and honey the bees were producing.

The amount of tropical rainforest we have lost is scary and makes me wonder why out of every other forest, why are the rainforest being targeted for deforestation? Is it because of the availability? I would think the government in these areas would put more restrictions on protecting the little amount of rainforests we have left.

If this statement was made in the 2000's, I wonder how much more habitat destruction has impacted environments world-wide. Also, the main causes of habitat destruction being from agriculture and deforestation how does this affect the surviving populations and their genetic variation and survivability if they have to move to another environment?

It does make sense that the ocean would have the most diverse allow organism living in it, as it does cover most of the planet. However I wonder how many unidentified organisms their are out left in these oceans.

I feel as in the last 20 years there has been a lot more shift and focus towards conservation. Especially nowadays with social media, anyone can get news about almost anything happening anywhere and this is a great thing. People can learn about saving bees or saving endangered species or what they can do from their own home to help out in some way. I'm sure in the next few years as well there are going to be a lot more people interested and being more open to changing the way things are run and trying to make thing more ecologically friendly.