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Humans have extensively changed the global environment. We have transformed nearly 50% of global land cover changing wetlands, forests, and shrub land into agricultural and urban arenas. The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 30%, as well as increases in other climate warming gases, due to negative human activities such as deforestation and fossil fuel combustion. Habitat destruction, especially destruction caused by humans, plays a key role in the extinctions of biota. We seek to inform our audience of the losses we face if human disturbances to endangered places do not cease. Biodiversity is valuable and worth conserving. It helps supports ecosystem services that humans depend on including air quality regulation, climate, water purification, pollination, and prevention of erosion to name a few. Our goal is to inform the public about the biodiversity within our study area, the Granitic Seychelles, and about the potential damage humans may cause on the site if conservation management is not applied. We present documentation about the various species, habitat conditions, and human induced disturbances on the Granitic Seychelles islands.
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