What are the implications of global wildlife monitoring?

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Lauren Ayres · Answer

Okay, so this question is asking about the implications of global wildlife monitoring. I think the most important thing is that by monitoring specific species, we can track and study their behavior and how that species is doing as a whole. And that will give us insight into how that entire ecosystem is doing as a whole. So a really great example of this is the North American River Otter. They're known as a keystone species. So based on how that species is doing in the wild can give a bigger picture and is representative of how that entire ecosystem is doing in the wild. So as the North American River Otter populations have really skyrocketed, that's an implication that you can kind of correlate to the entire ecosystem is doing really well. They're able to find food, they have predators that are keeping their populations under control, everything is in a balance. And conversely, when they're doing really poorly, there's probably a lot of ecosystem problems going on. So I think that's the first way that we can benefit from global wildlife monitoring. And I think most importantly, if you don't know where something is as a baseline, it's really hard to know if you're making a difference in the efforts that you're putting towards, you know, say saving a endangered species. So doing monitoring of the wildlife populations, you're able to say, okay, there are X number of animals here in the wild, and we want to have 10 X. So we know where to start. And we know what our goal is.

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"What are the implications of global wildlife monitoring?"