Should We Be More Concerned With The Current Rate of Extinction? Preserving endangered species isn’t an unfamiliar concept – everyone has seen the tiger commercials looking for donations‚ and most people are familiar with the “Save the Whales!” ballyhoo‚ but the question is: is it as big of a concern as people make it out to be? Some people think no‚ it’s not because extinction is a natural process that has been occurring since life existed on Earth and that the issue is being exaggerated. However
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Religious people should be more concerned about humans than endangered species Religious people should be more concerned about humans than endangered species Endangered species have more right not to be killed than members of other species‚ endangered species whose numbers are so small that the species is at risk of extinction. Once the endangered animals are gone they won’t come back. They are an important role in wildlife‚ if we take them out the whole system will be disrupted if some animals
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Advanced Studies in Biology‚ Vol. 5‚ 2013‚ no. 7‚ 337 - 346 HIKARI Ltd‚ www.m-hikari.com http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/asb.2013.3315 Molecular Phylogeny of the Endangered Vietnamese Paphiopedilum Species Based on the Internal Transcribed Spacer of the Nuclear Ribosomal DNA K. H. Trung1‚ T. D. Khanh2 ‚ L. H. Ham2‚ T. D. Duong2 and N. T. Khoa2 1 2 Genetic Engineering Lab‚ Agricultural Genetics Institute‚ Hanoi‚ Vietnam Molecular Biology Division‚ Agricultural Genetics Institute‚ Hanoi‚ Vietnam
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online at www.sciencedirect.com South African Journal of Botany 76 (2010) 652 – 654 www.elsevier.com/locate/sajb Chemical composition of the wood and leaf oils from the “Clanwilliam Cedar” (Widdringtonia cedarbergensis J.A. Marsh): A critically endangered species G.P.P. Kamatou a ‚ A.M. Viljoen a‚⁎‚ T. Özek b ‚ K.H.C. Başer b a Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences‚ Faculty of Science‚ Tshwane University of Technology‚ Private Bag X680‚ Pretoria 0001‚ South Africa b Department of Pharmacognosy
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PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF BIOACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS OF TERMINALIA PALLIDA BRANDIS‚ ENDEMIC‚ ENDANGERED PLANT OF TIRUMALA HILLS‚ EASTERN GHATS S.K.M. Basha*‚ E.Rajyalakshmi‚ K.Srilakshmi N.B.KR. Medicinal Plants Research Centre‚ Vidyanagar- 524413 E-mail: drskmbasha@gmail.com The plants which are used to cure diseases are called medicinal plants. This property of plants is due to the presence of certain chemicals namely Phytochemicals which include alkaloids‚ Glycosides‚ flavanoids
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Dark Room * Welcome to River Safari‚ Asia first’s & only river-themed wildlife park. * At River Safari‚ we bring you closer to freshwater ecosystem to experience the amazing diversity of the natural world. * Freshwater have been and still are‚ infinitely important to human civilization in many form * Do you know that 45% of fish species are found in freshwater? However due to over exploitation‚ pollution and habitat destruction‚ we are losing the freshwater species faster than
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life‚ has caused tremendous damage to environment and other species around. It is the need of the hour that he recognizes the importance of other species and environment and acts in harmony with them. I agree with the thought of preserving land for endangered animals than for people’s needs and propose the following supporting reasons for it. We have seen that there is population explosion‚ due to which more and more land is required to meet the human needs. More people will require more shelter to
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Tigers: The Silent Assassins Armed with razor like teeth and retractile claws in addition to their keen senses‚ tigers are silent assassins on top of the food chain. The magnificent striped panthera tigris‚ originally from Eastern Asia‚ once ranged an enormous span of the earth’s surface. Over the past century‚ it is estimated that the tigers habitat and numbers have been depleted by up to 95%. Having been greatly limited as a result of many factors‚ mainly human impacts‚ the tiger has been driven
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was started on 26 August 1976 by herpetologist Romulus Whitaker. Crocodile Enrichment is a key activity here. The first species on display is a Mexican Giant Musk Turtle. It is a species of turtle in the Kinosternidae family which is found in Central America and Mexico. The small roofed turtle was next on display. It is a species of turtle in the Geoemydidae family. It is found in the major rivers of South Asia. The Travancore tortoises were kept in a tank. It is a large forest tortoise growing up
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Wilderness Act. The Longleaf Pine Land management and Demonstration Area helps to restore habitats and more. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services want to conserve threatened and endangered animals. In 2009‚ the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge joined the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership to aid the migration of endangered whooping cranes. The area is governed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the U.S. Federal
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