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Right now there there is a research project going on in the Great Smokey mountains called the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. In latin taxa means rating , valuing, or appraising. The goal of this research project is to find and classify every species of plants and animals living in the park. Right now there are about 12000 known spieces living in the park but researches think that there are about 50000 to 100000 species in the park.

In my opinion i think this research is good because with these new spieces of plants and animals scientist might be able to solve other problems concerning these spieces. It will also allow us to have a better understanding of the the environment in the park and also around it. I think that it will be cool to see and learn about these new spieces and see how they affect the other animals and the environment because right now we have no idea how they affect the environment.