Tesorero, Mary Ann

BIO 3YB-1

Assignment 3: Marine mammals in the Philippines

Critique Paper
Then, write a one-page critique paper. The paper should contain important
points of the paper, your analysis, and insights. Convert your output to pdf.

The Patterns of Research Effort and Extinction Risk of Marine Mammals in

the Philippines a study written by Tiongson AJC, Utzurrum JA and de la Paz MEL (2021)
emphasize the inadequate studies about the marine mammals that is facing risk of
species extinction. It is found there is a scarce of study about the marine mammals in
the Philippines- in 30 species present in the country there were only 28 confirmed
marine mammals and 26 of them are data deficient.The study aims to create an
awareness to make more studies not only to the sole purpose of science to discover
more but to make a stand in the conservation of these animals because the
insufficient study leads to more hunting and catching for market production and
consuming. It is also discovered that although FAOs 185 and 185-1 are implemented
to continue the monitoring of the marine mammal species’ it is becoming unknown
because the effectiveness of this approach was never tracked. The tropics have the
largest populations of all the world's biodiversity and significant risks to conservation.
The study emphasize that the region represents the area where conservation efforts
are most urgently needed; especially in Southeast Asia that having one of the largest
numbers of species that are endangered because of a multitude of contributing
factors. Also the research pinpoints that terrestrial environment is not the only source
of this biodiversity. Southeast Asia's complicated geological history has resulted in a
vast and diversified maritime ecosystem that has the highest global diversity of
marine life.
The topic of the study made me reminisce my first year in Biology Course
where my zoology professor keep telling us that a lot animal species are becoming
extinct even before it was studied and known. Now I’m reading that lot of factors can
affect life extinction of a set of species.and it is disappointing that we or even our
great researchers can’t do something to protect them. The study is really an eye
opening for the young generation to create more research and be more curious
especially in these very moment that importance of research if being questioned and
being unconsidered and people were people who tends to speak were being smart
shamed and laughed at by others. It must and should be the golden era for
knowledge because the modern technologies are being more accessible however
majority of people use the technology for awful purposes. I hope that this research
will become supplemental to open a new horizon for the research realm of
conservation of our biodiversity. Opportunities on the gaps of the study must be field
so that more people could be aware and also I would recommend for this study to
make a PSA graphics so that it could reach more people and encourage them to take
good care and be aware of out marine mammals .