Manus Green Tree Essay

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The Manus Green Tree Snail, also known as the Emerald Snail, are only found on Manus Island north of New Guinea. Manus snail are found mostly in the central Manus forest. Manus Snails prefer to inhabit the high canopy of the forest. Biologists do not know how many of these snails currently exist. The main risks for the sustainability of this beautiful creature are habitat destruction and over-collection. Large-scale habitat loss is caused by logging, the trees the Manus Snail usually inhabits are used for timber. Over-collection for customary purposes or food is much less of a threat. The Manus Islanders also use the beautiful shells for decorations and jewelry. In the past, Manus shells were sold to tourists or shell collectors. However, there …show more content…

visit http://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/gces/6-ESA/esa_1208.pdf. Although my solution benefits this animal, it also helps the environment and community of animals. As you may or may not know when an animal is endangered or goes extinct the food chain has a tendency to mess up giving other animals less of a variety to eat causing many animals to starve and/or change their eating habits which can harm the animal and it’s system if it is not use to that type or behavior. As I stated before, there or no policies, statements, laws, and/or regulations that are keeping my proposed solutions from being in place, if anything all organizations and the government seem to agree with my proposals. Although I have proposed these solutions, I am just one person and changing this creatures population is going to take more than one person, I believe that agencies that should help found my solutions are CITES, WCS, etc. and I feel these same companies and agencies should help implement my proposals and whoever they can get to help. If I had a PR (Public Relations) Department that would help me to put these proposals

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