A biodiversity is the variety of world or in a particular habitat/ ecosystem. My group choose the West African Forests, this is classified as a biodiversity hotspot because three out of 20 species are threaten. Also humans hurt the forest by logging, mining, hunting, and population growth. The West African Forests, are part of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia Cote, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Togo Guinea, and Cameron.
The West African Forests is home to to an estimated 9,000 vascular plant species. More than 20 species live in this forest. Fruit bats being one of the species, these fruit bats carry ebola. In this article I read it talked about how the more people cut down the trees, the faster/ more people can get ebola. So while they help the environment, in a way they hurt themselfs too! 
This is a food web for the West African Forest. The food web shows that the python and jaguar are the tertiary consumers. The secondary consumers are the vampire bats, iguanas, red-eyed tree frog, chimpanzees, and parrots, The primary consumers are the macaws, fruit bats, monkeys, and insects. So that makes the orchids, seeds, banana trees, bamboo, and coconut trees the producers of the West African Forest food web. The decomposers being the bracker fungi, jelly-like fungi, gilled fungi, slime mold, and coral fungi.
Among the many flagship plant species in this hotspot are a number of economically important species. The oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis), widely planted throughout the tropics for oil production, is native to the hotspot, while valuable timber species include the African ebony ( Diospyros gracilis), two genera of African mahogany ( Entandophragma and Khaya), and iroko ( Milicia excelsa), which is widely exploited. Fish diversity is quite remarkable in the Guinean Forests hotspot, with more than 510 freshwater fishes, 35 percent of which are thought to be endemic. About a quarter of the world's 350 species of killifish live here, half of which are endemic. Cichlid fishes are also prominent, with more than half of the over 60 species endemic to the hotspot. Four of the five endemic genera of cichlids are found only in Lake Barombi Mbo in northwest Cameroon. One of the endangered species is the chimpanzee. They are endangered because of habitat loss, since people log, mine, and farm in their habits. Also because of bushmeat, but since people have made a big trade out of it there is less for the chimpanzee.
For us to restore this ecosystem, people should stop cutting down the trees and using the forest resources for their own use, because the live there really needs them to live. It has become a biodiversity hotspot since people started using more of it's sources for unhealty use for the ecosystem, like mining in order to do that they have to dig deep into the earth with isn't good. Also many of the humans causes are bad for all the animals and plants that live there.
Overall learning about this and doing all this research made me learn a lot about biodiversity hotspots and that humans cause a lot of what is going on to the world. Although people are the main cause for all the bad happening in the environment, they also have the power to stop it and fix it but the real question is when are people going to open their eyes and see what really is going on, before it's too late!
