What are Endemic and Exotic species?
Endemic mean restricted to certain region. For example, Kangaroos are originally endemic to Australia and are found nowhere else in the world. One tends to adapt themselves to their surroundings, climate, habitat and other variations. After which it becomes difficult to uproot ourselves and settle elsewhere. All living species, human, plants, animals, and birds have a habit of making home and finding it difficult to leave when the time calls for it. The ones which do not leave the area become endemic to that region.
Endemic species are those which are only found in a given region or location and nowhere else in the world. So the region which the species is endemic to ends up being called the “endemic site”, a “national endemic”, a “geographical range endemic”, or a political region endemic depending on the location. But as we see endemic plants and animals are unique to a particular geographical region. They are incredibly unique and more vulnerable to extinction. As a result, special efforts are required to conserve them.
Exotic means previously the species was not found in certain region but now it is introduced somehow. So that species is exotic. An exotic species, with respect to a particular ecosystem, refers to any species, including its larvae, seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of propagating the species, which is not native to that ecosystem.
Endemic and Exotic species also differ in another way that, if dominant, exotic species may lead to disappearance of native species.
