ENVR 1302

  Ball python  Python regius Near threatened Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; South Sudan; Togo; Uganda The natural habitat for a ball python has a large range they can live in Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Artificial/Terrestrial according to the ICUN website.  The ball python assessment information found on the ICUN and website shows a decrease in there population. It states that in 2010 they were categorized as LC or least concern then 11 years later in 2021 they have now became NT in or near threatened.   Threats of the ball python decreasing in population, according to the ICUN includes Agriculture & aquaculture, Annual & perennial non-timber crops, Livestock farming & ranching, Biological resource use, and Hunting & trapping terrestrial animals.  Use and Tr...

1.0 Points of View 1.1 From the abstract, in the beginning paragraph, I believe the author, Briske, the leaves strongly that there has been a misconception of “oversimplification of  rangeland function and denouncement of science”. He would be defending the science behind range land function. It really seems that the TEDTalk speaker had stepped on some toes in science. 1.2 They start out by mentioning that he is a soldier, basically allowing him to see other areas of the world. adding the in also gives him a more human appeal. There is a wide conception that all soldiers are inherently good. I believe we are speaking about the same person as the first article. He is suggesting a controversial topic about how it is necessary to keep livestock in areas to prevent deforestation. After seeing this happen over his lifetime he wanted to help slow this process. We also have remnants of that Ted talk where he has said he has seen this over decades giving him more credibility.  2.0 Pur...