Category Archives: Biodiversity

The Great Barrier Reef attracts over 2,000,000 million visitors a year and is a massive natural resource because of the amount of money it brings in from tourism. The reef also holds a significant amount of biodiversity and to damage … Continue reading →

By Mara Cassidy Article link: http://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/22/too-many-deer/ For our semester-long project, my group and I discussed looking at the overpopulation of deer in Pennsylvania and trying to see their effects on the environment (or if there are even any effects). The article … Continue reading →

By Emma Jenkins One of the topics my group is considering is the endangerment of the African lion (Panthera leo leo species).  In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the species as threatened.  In late December 2015, the African … Continue reading →