ELA Final Portfolio About Bats

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  1. why without bats the whole world would suffer by Evelyn cam burn.
  2. Did you know that bats eat insects so much that they save humans?
  3. $3.7 billion dollars in pest control per year per year in the United States.
  4. My name is Evelyn.
  5. And today I'll be proving that without bats the whole world would suffer.
  6. I chose this topic to research because I believe that people need to know more
  7. about need to know how important some overlooked species of animals are.
  8. I believe that bats are important species to the
  9. environment and the earth needs them to survive.
  10. I'll prove this claim by explaining how they help pollinate,
  11. get rid of bugs and provide food for other animals.
  12. I care about the environment and I want to protect it.
  13. I was super surprised on how how much of a role bats play in the environment
  14. in the future.
  15. I want I want I want humans to be able to enjoy the natural
  16. beauty of this world without it being destroyed because of the past few days.
  17. Because of the past mistakes,
  18. It might be surprisingly to you, but bats pollinate flowers and fruits.
  19. In fact
  20. there are more than 530 species of flowering plants that
  21. rely on bats as their major or exclusive pollinators.
  22. According to bat conservation international.
  23. That's also dispense dispense seeds so that forests can naturally grow
  24. according to the US Fish. Fish and Wildlife Services.
  25. Fruit bats can account for as much as 95% of the
  26. seeds dispersal responsible for early growth and recently cleared forests.
  27. If bats were disappear force that were
  28. the victims to deforestation or other natural causes
  29. would
  30. would take much longer to recover.
  31. It would also cause many plant species not to be able
  32. to be pollinated and some of them might even go extinct.
  33. Bats get rid of bugs.
  34. Bats can eat more than 100% of their body weight each night.
  35. As stated in the introduction,
  36. bats save farmers and agricultural industries $3.7 million
  37. and pests
  38. and pesticides to keep their crops safe from insects.
  39. Bats also controlled the population of disease ridden bugs like mosquitoes.
  40. That's conversation International did an experiment Where they made enclosures
  41. with mosquitoes and bats while the other just had mosquitoes,
  42. the result concluded that there were 32% fewer egg
  43. clutches in the bat enclosures than in the controls
  44. without bats.
  45. Industries would have to spend much more on
  46. pesticides that would hurt their wallets and the environment
  47. on top of this diseases that were originally controlled
  48. by bats would run rampant and possibly kill people.
  49. Finally,
  50. bats provide food for other animals.
  51. Bats eat thousands of insects each night, but animals also eat them.
  52. Hawks, falcons, owls, and owls eat bats and mammals like weasels,
  53. Ring tailed cats and raccoons
  54. sometimes attack bats while they roost. States the National Park Service's
  55. Eco Health Alliance states that to lose bats
  56. were to lose 20% of the global mammal population
  57. on top of the animals that eat bats,
  58. the animals that eat, what bats pollinate would also suffer.
  59. The loss of the animals would have a
  60. catastrophic effect on every environment in the world.
  61. I say, every environment because that can be found almost anywhere in the world,
  62. thousands of animal species would go extinct
  63. and it would cause a global catastrophe.
  64. Yeah.
  65. In conclusion, without bats, everyone in the world would suffer.
  66. There would be disease and decrease in plant and animal life.
  67. There would also be a great increase in in uh,
  68. the cost to protect farms.
  69. This all matters because if we want life
  70. to be comfortable and to protect the environment,
  71. we need to start by helping bats by helping bats,
  72. You are protecting thousands of species of plants and animals from extinction.
  73. You're also helping
  74. the lives of countless humans that could be infected by the disease.
  75. Is that that's helped to control.
  76. Thank you for listening to my presentation and have a nice day.