Can you help me understand this Environmental Science question?

The purpose of this discussion is to explore the IUCN Red List of threatened species, used by governments and organizations around the globe to identify species’ conservation status.

You will have the opportunity to develop skills/knowledge in:

• Utilizing terminology and concepts related to biodiversity
• Identifying the causes of the sixth mass extinction
• Recognizing opportunities and challenges for species recovery efforts

Complete the following tasks for this discussion:

• Visit the IUCN Red List (Links to an external site.) and research one species.
• Then, post the following:
  1. The species common name and scientific genus and species
  2. The habitat and ecology
  3. It’s conservation status
  4. One interesting thing you learned about this species
  5. Threats to this species
  6. Conservation details
  7. Your source
• Finally, respond to two other students comparing the species and threats you both highlighted in your post. Were they similar? What was different?

Use the following criteria/tips for success:

• You have until the following week’s Friday discussion deadline to reply to another student. Peer reviews are 40% of the grade for the discussion.
• Reference the grading rubric for this assignment
• Here is an example post. I researched the incredible scaly-foot snail, Chrysomallon squamiferum. It’s habitat is deep, marine benthic (at 3,000 meters deep!). It is listed as endangered. What could threaten something that lives 10,000 feet underwater?! It’s threatened by underwater mining of polymetallic sulphide mineral resources at hydrothermal vents off the coat of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. I learned that this species is particularly vulnerable to extinction because hydrothermal vents count as fragmented habitat. They are extremely far apart on the seafloor (1,000s of kilometers) and scientists don’t even know if species can get from one to another. Once a community is destroyed all of the unique species that evolved at that vent could be lost. Unfortunately, there are no conservation actions at this point for this species. Deep sea resource extraction is Source (Links to an external site.)