Snow Leopards in Natural Selection “The snow leopard is listed on the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Species as "Endangered‚" the same classification given the panda and the tiger.An estimated 3‚500 to 7‚000 wild snow leopards roam the mountains of central Asia today. In addition‚ there are between 600 and 700 snow leopards in zoos around the world. No one has an exact count because snow leopards are so elusive and inhabit such harsh and remote habitat that they are rarely
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deer‚ but is hunting a lion‚ or an elephant sane? With deer‚ you can use them for food. The only thing you can do with a lion is hang its head on your wall. Hunting is good unless it is an endangered or protected species. Hunting specific animals can ruin our ecosystem. Hunting protected and/or endangered animals is wrong because it hurts our ecosystem. Each animal in our ecosystem is there for a reason. If we continue to kill these animals‚ all of their prey would over populate. If they overpopulate
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and very smooth. It uses a muscular foot to adhere itself to rock bases‚ and is fairly nocturnal for its own protection. It is lives along the coast of California down to parts of Mexico. On January 14‚ 2009‚ the black abalone was put on the Endangered Species List. It is a dying species because of human involvement and is greatly affected by a disease known as Withering Syndrome. Table of Contents Abstract --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page
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Ms.Yassin I believe animals should be kept in the zoo because it it helps protect our species from being endangered. It also provides the Public education on all the animals‚ helps endangered species by breeding the animals and animals are mostly born in the zoo not knowing what it is like to live in the wild. Zoos are vital for education. It helps people view beautiful animals that they would
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mass extinction. What is the extinction rate of a species? Describe how scientists estimate extinction rates. Give four reasons why many extinction experts believe that human activities are now causing a sixth mass extinction. Distinguish between endangered species and threatened species. List some characteristics that make some species especially vulnerable to extinction. Background extinction is defined as the continuous‚ low level of extinction of species over the 3.56 billion years life existed
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BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION Biodiversity is determined by the variety of species extant in a specific ecosystem; this includes both animals and plants. Biodiversity is what gives an ecosystem a continuing and symbiotic relationship between all the organic and inorganic elements; maintaining the proper balance of different gases such as nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ hydrogen‚ carbon dioxide and many other elements‚ which differ in composition depending on the type of environment (such as subterranean‚ aquatic
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Abstract This paper is to discuss endangered species. It is meant to help understand how a species becomes endangered. It tells who decides which species are considered endangered and what conditions would lead them to become endangered. The paper tells about how endangered species can affect the lives of just a few people but an entire town. Examples are included in the text about how this has happened before. It is easy to understand how a species can be considered endangered but the purpose of the paper
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hunt for food‚ not just for the trophies or money. There needs to be more protection of endangered animals in Africa from foreign hunters. There was a lion named Cecil. He was a very famous lion and he was also extinct. Cecil was killed by a dentist named Walter Palmer. He was 13 years old when he was killed. Walter Palmer killed him with a rifle. He had a hunting permit and did not know that Cecil was endangered and he was not charged with any crime‚ but he still had to pay a big fee for killing him
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life. The people started whaling so much that in 1973 whales were put on the endangered species list. In the northern part of the Cook Inlet Alaska there is said to be at least 350 beluga whales which has declined by 50% since 1994. In 2008 Beluga whales became in danger of extinction again‚ but this time it was in the threatened category‚ before that it was listed at vulnerable. The white whale is indeed endangered for many reasons‚ pollution being the main reason‚ the other reasons consist
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ORANGUTANS ARE EXTREMELY ENDANGERED DUE TO OIL PALM TREE PLANTATIONS Would you like your home taken away from you? Many animal species including the Orangutan are becoming extremely endangered because of land clearage for new palm oil plantations in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra‚ an island near Indonesia and Malaysia in south-east Asia. Sadly‚ 80% of the Orangutan’s habitat has been lost in the past 20 years due to this. The rapid loss of environment has caused the existence of these
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