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I hope that the course
has been interesting.

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Great to see you here,
you're almost done.

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Remember when in the beginning of
this course we, me and Panu, made

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some arguments related to
the contents of this course?

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I argued that humans are the
least threatened species on Earth.

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Now that you have gotten
familiar with the species

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assessment methods, what do you think?

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Is my argument a well reasoned one?
And Panu,

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what do you think?

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Well, we humans are a widely
spread species and there's not

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any kind of imminent
threat on our existence.

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So we are clearly a
least concern species.

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On the other hand, there's for example
some invertebrates that would most likely

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do fine even in conditions
where we would heavily suffer.

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Yeah, that's true indeed.

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For example, cockroaches would survive a
nuclear winter, and then we have tardigrades,

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or water bears, that do just fine even
though they would be sent to space.

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Panu, what was your argument?

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Well, I argued that this course
will give you tools to understand

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endangerment and also to act to stop it.

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Very hard to say anything against
that one, I guess, but if you

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disagree, that means that
we have done a bad job.

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Now you are in the end of the
first Nature under Threat course.

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Please double check that you
have done all the course tasks.

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And after that you can ask me to
give you the well deserved credits.

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And remember that there is
a second Nature under Threat

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course that you can also attend to.

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In the second course we will dig even deeper
into the threat assessment methods, practices,

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and how the information
contained in the Red Lists is

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applied in conservation. 
- See you there.