Chapter+4+Questions

1. Tunisia has a National Biodiversity Strategy, the general goal of this is to maintain biodiversity in Tunisia. There are 24 protected areas throughout the country that are preservered and kept out of harms way and human interference in hopes of keeping the biodiversity level high. They also work towards rebuilding ecosystems and trying to control degradation of these ecosystems and being sustainable.

4. In El Kef Tunisia there was a huge extinction of plankton, about 78% of all species were wiped out, leaving only ten species left. The bigger species died first, followed by the smaller species this shows that the extinction was most likely not random and was probably caused by habitat disruption.