productive and successful strategy for protecting endangered species worldwide because they provide animals with proper shelter‚ proper nutrition and they create fundraisers and charities to help save the animals. Firstly‚ the zoo provides animals with proper shelter‚ which is very important to help animals survive in certain conditions. Endangered species are those at immediate risk of going extinct. The primary factors leading to species becoming endangered include habitat loss‚ pollution‚ introduction
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described as conservation “hotspot”. Fewer natural wildlife habitat areas remain each year. Moreover‚ the habitat that remains has often been degraded to the wild areas which existed in the past. The country’s wildlife is listed as endangered‚ critically endangered or facing extinction. Fragile as they are‚ these wonderful creatures need support in the conservation effort for the environment to ensure that they will co-exist with us humans. Wildlife conservation efforts are aimed in several main
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Scotian Shelf and Slope‚ southern Gulf of St. Lawrence‚ and south coast of Newfoundland. The leatherback has also been seen less frequently off the coast of British Columbia. Designation: The leatherback turtle was listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered in 1970. Threats Leatherbacks are facing extinction mainly due to human impacts on their environment. Nesting sites are disturbed through tourism or commercial development‚ and poachers often harvest eggs for food. Adult turtles
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Biodiversity Paper BIO/280 March 4‚ 2013 Shameema Sarker Conservation biology is a scientific discipline that devotes its focus to maintaining and conserving the structural biological
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To begin with‚ big game hunting should be banned because people aren’t killing innocent game for food or survival‚ they’re killing them for decoration.. In the article published in the LA Times‚ the author stated‚ “Every lion or rhino or bear that is hunted purely to get a trophy is a Cecil in some way-it may not be famous‚ but it is a sentient being‚ killed for its value as an ornament.” To further explain‚ on July 1‚ 2015‚ Cecil the Lion was killed illegally in Zimbabwe. Big game hunters lured
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many endangered species. Examples of poaching include shooting animals out of season‚ catching more fish than allowed‚ and “spotlighting‚” which is when a hunter shines a powerful light into a deer’s eyes to incapacitate them. These are the types of poaching seen in America. Commonly poached animals in North America include white tail deer‚ Canadian geese‚ and numerous types of river fish. All of these are common animal. In other parts of the world‚ the poached animals are usually endangered. The
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Do you think democracy is endangered by the need to raise huge amounts of money to run for public office? Is the need for big money leading to less democracy—that is‚ government by special interests? Would you support public financing of campaigns? I feel that democracy is endangered by the need to raise huge amounts of money to run for public office. Money talks and that means that the candidates who raise the most money usually win (pg. 407). Per the textbook on page 408 the wealth and powerful
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On April 23‚ 2015‚ officials investigated a supposedly abandoned warehouse near the Belawan port in Medan‚ Indonesia. Inside‚ they found sixty poultry crates filled with ninety-six terrified and dehydrated pangolins. Also inside of the warehouse were two refrigerated shipping containers. They held boxes and bags of dead pangolin alongside bags of pangolin scales and meat. In all‚ five tons of frozen pangolins were discovered. There were also over 220 pounds of pangolin scales. These obscure scaly
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otter and Kentucky wants turkey. We’ve got plenty of turkey‚ and since Kentucky doesn’t have surplus otter‚ they have to get them in Louisiana". This type of trading among states to preserve endangered wildlife has become common practice. Although these playful acrobats are not on the federal list of endangered species‚ they have disappeared from many states (DiSilvestro 182). In 1976 residents of Missouri voted yes on a "conservation sales tax"‚ and one of
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scale. Efforts have to be made to conserve biodiversity by conserving plants and wildlife. There are two main ways to conserve biodiversity. These are termed ex situ and in situ. Ex situ conservation involves conservation activities especially of endangered species outside their natural habitat. It is done through establishment of zoos‚ botanical gardens‚ genetic resource centres and cultural collection. In situ conservation is the conservation of species in their natural habitat. In situ conservation
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