Week 16 Video Presentation: Human Impacts of Fish Biodiversity

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  1. this project is being done on humans impact on the world's rivers.
  2. With a primary news article in a primary literature article
  3. that are based on the freshwater problems
  4. that
  5. are being caused by human activity.
  6. The news article is from is titled human damage
  7. done to more than half of all rivers worldwide.
  8. It is safe to say that half of the rivers have been affected somehow by human activity
  9. as
  10. what
  11. as well as
  12. learning from the research.
  13. The news article stated that
  14. less than 15% of rivers with
  15. fish population had been able to escape the
  16. larger damages of
  17. human activity like over exploitation,
  18. the burning of fossil fuels or the dumping of waste.
  19. From the research
  20. that was published in the journal Science,
  21. The researchers assessed around 1500 rivers across the world
  22. and from this,
  23. the news article
  24. stated that
  25. this
  26. the
  27. problems that are increasing are due
  28. to larger companies and larger industries that
  29. dump and
  30. push their waste into art into
  31. these fishes
  32. ecosystems.
  33. Many
  34. fish are going extinct in salt water as well as fresh water because of
  35. dumping and human
  36. activity.
  37. The worst areas that are being hit by this
  38. per the news article are in the more metropolitan areas like europe, in the U. K.
  39. And north America like the United States
  40. as this news articles from the BBC. So
  41. for an example of the river thames in London,
  42. the
  43. News article revealed from the research as well
  44. that rivers and lengths are freshwater systems cover
  45. less than 1% of the planet's surface,
  46. but there
  47. vital
  48. to the world's surviving and progressing.
  49. The primary literature article is titled
  50. human impacts on global freshwater biodiversity.
  51. The main causes of the problems with biodiversity is because of
  52. the removal or the introduction of non native or invasive species.
  53. As stated in the news article, Rivers and Lakes cover less than one
  54. of the earth's surface.
  55. But because of its large representation with biodiversity,
  56. Over 10,000 fish species
  57. are a part of
  58. the vertebrae is in the world.
  59. More than half of the river basins in the world
  60. have
  61. had have been scored a cumulative change score in biodiversity. Facets or C. C. D. E.
  62. F. Higher than six,
  63. which reveals that there is a
  64. problem
  65. in the with the human impacts on fish biodiversity
  66. though there is an increase in the local diversity because
  67. of the environmental pollutions and pollutants caused by humans.
  68. The figure
  69. from the
  70. research reveals that there is an
  71. inverse trend
  72. for freshwater fish
  73. in the
  74. taxonomy,
  75. the phyllo genetic and the functional richness
  76. in over half of the world's rivers.
  77. From the research, it stated that around
  78. 11,000
  79. fish species have been
  80. looked at but and 100 and 70 fish species went extinct in a in a single river basin,
  81. though the number could be skewed because of
  82. the lack of efficiency between
  83. the true extinction date and when it was reported
  84. to be to continue
  85. the
  86. C. C. B. F.
  87. Was positively linked to human activities
  88. related to
  89. development in the economy or industrialization
  90. and for example,
  91. human for a parent
  92. humanity's rip current.
  93. Most of the water use that is being taken from our freshwater systems
  94. was for agricultural industry,
  95. which
  96. significantly
  97. increase the CCB F score
  98. and the C.
  99. CBS score was positively related to richness in native species
  100. in most of the realms that were being researched.
  101. These are the works cited. It is safe to say that the news article
  102. did its best to accurately
  103. report what the
  104. primary literature article was trying to say.
  105. Of course, that there are a few areas that were
  106. pumped up for people
  107. for the media to understand.
  108. But it did truly relate to the primary
  109. literature article on how humanity has been destroying
  110. most of our rivers through
  111. over exploitation,
  112. the burning of fossil fuels and more.
  113. Thank you.