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The Drivers of Southeast Asian Biodiversity Loss, GROUP A: Nuraini binti…

- - - - Approx. 800,000 squared km of karst in tropical SE Asia and Southern China, has 8/47 world-heritage protected karsts and 8/30 tentative areas.
      - Cement exp increases exponentially -- global annual quarrying 178m metric tons, annual increase of 5.7%
        
        -3 of 5 top global limestone exporters are of SE Asia (India, Vietnam, Malaysia), exporting 18.9% of global cement exports
      - Relatively understudied, causing every study to karst regions describes new species of a wide variety of taxa
        
        High rate of species discovery, with 41.73% coming from Asian region
      - Represents hotspots of biodiversity
        
        Karsts are stated to harbor over 2000 plant sp. , 541 chordates, 2000 insects sp. In Vietnam
      - Essential for various life processes
    - - SE Asia is globally one of the biggest exporters of minerals
        
        -Indonesia - 7th, Malaysia - 15th
      - Many countries across the region depend upon mineral exports as a big proportion off their GDP
        
        -50% exports from Lao are copper ore.
      - There is less research on impacts of mining on regional biodiversity.