Adaptation: The adjustment to environmental conditions.  

Apex predator: A predator at the top of a food chain that is not preyed upon by any other animals.   

Biodiversity: The biological diversity in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals. 

Breeding: The action or process of bearing or generating   

Conservation: Planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect 

Consumer: An organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter. 

Contrary: A fact or condition incompatible with another.  

Cultivated: Something that is refined or educated

Delicacy: Something pleasing to eat that is considered rare or luxurious 

Descent: Derivation from an ancestor 

Ecosystem: The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit   

Endangerment: To bring into danger or peril; to create a dangerous situation 

Evolutionarily: Descent with modification from preexisting species 

Exploited: Used for someone's advantage; especially, of a person 

Extinction: The act of making extinct or causing to be extinguished

Fragmentation: The state of being broken into two separate parts  

Genetic diversity: The variation in the amount of genetic information within and among individuals of a population, a species, assemblage, or a community. (Biodiversity A-Z, 2014) 

Genetic admixture: The presence of DNA in an individual from a distantly-related population or species, as a result of interbreeding between populations or species who have been reproductively isolated and genetically differentiated. (Science Direct, 2020)  

Habitat: The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.  

Habilitation: To make fit or capable.  

Herpetology: A branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.  

Hybridized: To cause to produce hybrids: interbreed; to produce hybrids.  

Influx: A coming in.  

Inhabitants: One that occupies a particular place regularly, routinely, or for a period of time.  

Instrumental: Serving as a crucial means, agent, or tool.  

Jurisdiction: Serving as a crucial means, agent, or tool. 

Looming: To come into sight in enlarged or distorted and indistinct forms often as a result of atmospheric conditions. 

Migrants: An animal that shifts from one habitat to another 

Mitigate: To cause to become less harsh or hostile: mollify; to make less severe or painful. 

Nonprofits: Not conducted or maintained for the purpose of making a profit.   

Originated: Something that has a specified beginning.  

Overharvesting: To harvest something excessively and especially to a harmful degree.  

Over-consumption: Excessive consumption or use of something.  

Pathogen: A specific causative agent (such as a bacterium or virus) of disease.  

Perish: To become destroyed or ruined: cease to exist; deteriorate, spoil; to cause to die.  

Poach: To trespass for the purpose of stealing game. 

Population: The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. 

Predator: An organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms.  

Producer: One that produces.  

Productivity: The quality or state of being productive. 

Province: A country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman government. 

Proximity: The quality or state of being proximate: closeness.  

Renewable resource: One that can be used repeatedly and does not run out because it is naturally replaced. (Investopedia, 2019)  

Stability: the quality, state, or degree of being stable. Such as the strength to stand or endure or firmness. 

Species: A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name.  

Subsidized: Furnished with a subsidy: paid for with the assistance of a subsidy.   

Untapped resource: If a supply of something valuable is untapped, it is not yet used or taken advantage of. (Cambridge Dictionary, 2020) 

 

* All citations are from Merriam Webster except the ones cited in the glossary