Weekly Blog #4 - Sustaining Forest & Aquatic Biodiversity

After learning more about aquatic biodiversity, I found it very interesting that humans have explored only about 5% of the ocean so far. The ocean has millions of species, and many of them have already been discovered and studied. Researchers are still discovering the ocean and finding new species. For instance, they have recently found the bumpy snailfish around 2025. Even though the species was found in 2019; researches identified the bumpy snailfish recently. This deep-sea fish reminds me of a blobfish, which is one of my favorite fish. 

A major takeaway I gained from AP Environmental class I took back in high school was that human activities had a huge impact on the marine ecosystem. Human activity, such as pollution, overfishing, and dumping, harms sea life and their habitats. Overfishing affects the food web, and that can reduce the population of sea animals later on. Pollution and dumping can harm the habitats of sea animals. These harmful effects can reduce these speicies populatuion since many of these species require a long process to reproduce. 




Source:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/pets-animals/other/2025/09/19/bumpy-snailfish-discovered-california/86205810007/

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