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    This letter discusses endangered and threatened animals in the UAE and the importance of biodiversity. It defines extinct, endangered, and threatened species and provides examples of critically endangered species in the UAE like the Hawksbill turtle. The letter encourages the government to support programs that help endangered animals and conserve biodiversity, noting that diverse ecosystems provide many benefits like increased productivity, freshwater resources, soil formation, and medicinal resources.

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    This letter discusses endangered and threatened animals in the UAE and the importance of biodiversity. It defines extinct, endangered, and threatened species and provides examples of critically endangered species in the UAE like the Hawksbill turtle. The letter encourages the government to support programs that help endangered animals and conserve biodiversity, noting that diverse ecosystems provide many benefits like increased productivity, freshwater resources, soil formation, and medicinal resources.

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    This letter discusses endangered and threatened animals in the UAE and the importance of biodiversity. It defines extinct, endangered, and threatened species and provides examples of critically endangered species in the UAE like the Hawksbill turtle. The letter encourages the government to support programs that help endangered animals and conserve biodiversity, noting that diverse ecosystems provide many benefits like increased productivity, freshwater resources, soil formation, and medicinal resources.

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    This letter discusses endangered and threatened animals in the UAE and the importance of biodiversity. It defines extinct, endangered, and threatened species and provides examples of critically endangered species in the UAE like the Hawksbill turtle. The letter encourages the government to support programs that help endangered animals and conserve biodiversity, noting that diverse ecosystems provide many benefits like increased productivity, freshwater resources, soil formation, and medicinal resources.

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    Dear UAE Government,

    The purpose of this letter is to discuss the general topic that comes to mind, when you talk
    about modern-day problems: extinct, endangered, and threatened animals. First of all, in order
    to gain an in-depth understanding, we need to understand the difference between extinct,
    endangered and threatened animals.  “Endangered” means a species is in danger of extinction
    throughout all or a significant portion of its range. “Threatened” means a species is likely to
    become endangered within the foreseeable future. Generally speaking, they are animals and
    plants that are in decline and may be in danger of extinction. Threatened species are any
    species which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened
    are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of critical depensation, a
    mathematical measure of biomass related to population growth rate.

    Despite UAE being a small country, with a mediocre history, especially when compared to other
    countries, it still has a lot of endangered species:

     Hawksbill turtle. Status: Critically endangered.


     Arabian Leopard. Status: Critically endangered.
     Arabian Tahr. Status: Endangered.
     Spiny-tailed lizard. Status: Vulnerable.
     Socotra Cormorant. Status: Vulnerable.
     Houbara Bustard. Status: Vulnerable.

    Let’s take the Hawksbill turtle as an example. Hawksbill turtles are much sought after
    throughout the tropics for their brown and yellow carapace plates that are manufactured into
    tortoiseshell items, such as jewellery and ornaments. Other reasons for their decline include
    loss of nesting and feeding habitats due to rising water levels, excessive egg collection, fishery-
    related mortality, pollution, coastal development and illegal wildlife trade.

    How you can help:

    • Adopt a Turtle — Join the Marine Turtle Conservation Project, launched in 2010 by Emirates
    Wildlife Society in association with WWF (EWS-WWF), by signing up for their program at
    gulfturtles.com.

    • Check Out for Turtles — Retailers, hotels, dive centres and restaurants interested in showing
    their support can join this initiative by asking guests to voluntarily donate Dh10 to the turtle
    conservation program at the time of check out.

    Biodiversity

    You may ask what is biodiversity and why is it so vital? Well, biodiversity is the amount of variety
    of life on Earth. It is the number of different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms. It
    includes organisms from Earth’s vastly different ecosystems, including deserts, rainforests, coral
    reefs, grasslands, tundra, and polar ice caps. Our biodiversity is very important to the well-being
    of our planet. Most cultures, at least at some time, have recognized the importance of
    conserving natural resources. Many still do, but many do not.

     Healthy ecosystems and rich biodiversity:

     Increase ecosystem productivity; each species in an ecosystem has a specific niche—a


    role to play.
     Support a larger number of plant species and, therefore, a greater variety of crops.
     Protect freshwater resources.
     Promote soils formation and protection.
     Provide for nutrient storage and recycling.
     Aid in breaking down pollutants.
     Contribute to climate stability.
     Speed recovery from natural disasters.
     Provide more food resources.
     Provide more medicinal resources and pharmaceutical drugs.
     Offer environments for recreation and tourism.

    Now that you gained a greater understanding of this topic, I would like to proceed by stating that
    we should invest more into programs that promote animal safety, and biodiversity. Which, as I
    stated before, if done correctly comes with many benefits.

    Yours truly,
    Kirill Momoh

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