Essay On Urban Biodiversity

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I have researched studies that tackle how the community gives importance to the urban biodiversity. Although I cannot show all the actions made by different city and other urban places, it represents that even small community can do something to improve and conserve the biodiversity in the urban. I have only researched notable actions made by city officials. One of these is the Singapore which is relatively small in terms of land area compared to other countries.
When it comes to discovering new species, the urban is always full of surprises. In the land of Singapore, a lot of biologists are delighted because of the discoveries found there. Because of that, Singapore takes the biodiversity more seriously than any other city in the world. Its tropical location becomes a biological advantage that helps build a connection between the urban place and the natural environment. To make their land look more habitable and luring, the Singaporeans think of fostering plants, animal, and even marine creatures. This move became successful as they launched a 40-hectare marine park. The marine park is enclosed with parcels of land and …show more content…

The said study uses a bird as a bio-indicator. They used birds because they are easier to notice to the public. It also proposes a merge between the two current methods, the i-Tree and the e-Bird for keeping traces of the natural world. The i-Tress is a software designed by the US Forest Service and is used by the organizations around the world to record data of cover areas of trees in urban areas while e-Bird, that was made by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is a checklist system that enables a large number of birds around the world to log their observations into a central database. The merging of these two soft wares helps the researches to identify which trees can be characterized as a bird

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