WWF is an organisation established to protect the future of nature and has been over the last fifty years. Operating in one hundred countries globally, WWF has more than one million supporters in the United States and almost five million worldwide, as a result there advertisements can reach an incredible size audience. This advertisement is particularly striking as it circulates against the recent poaching of animals in the wild for their valuable horns which are sold illegally on black markets
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Introduction The bata, Labeo bata (Hamilton, 1822) is one of the endangered minor carp species of Bangladesh. L. bata is distributed throughout Indian subcontinent including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar and also Pakistan (Talwar and Jhingran, 1991; Devi and Ali, 2013). This fish is commercially important and target species for commercial small and large scale fishers in Bangladesh. It is also used by both culture and capture fisheries nowadays. L. bata is highly popular in the market because
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Government on environmental issues is NACOSAR. The role of National Aboriginal Council on Species at Risk (NACOSAR) is to advise the Minister of Environment on the administration of the Act and to provide advice and recommendations to the Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC) as set out in section 8(1) of the Act. The Federal Government has implemented various programs to ensure that the environment and the ecological systems are not damaged beyond repair due to the industrial expansion
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FERNANDEZ, Sam T401 MWF 330-430 BS HTM TTM 4 10 September 2014 AUSTRALIA 1. Southern corroboree frog - Pseudophryne corroboree IUCN listing: Critically Endangered Inhabiting a small corridor on the New South Wales and Victorian border, the tiny southern corroboree frog - which is the size of a fingernail - is running on the edge of extinction. Fewer than 150 breeding males are thought to survive across 23 sites that were surveyed in 2001. The main suspected threat is the chytrid
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Two opposing stakeholders are the small oil palms growers and the orangutans that live in the rain forest. The orangutans lead an arboreal life and live off of a diet largely consisting of fruit. They just want to be left alone to swing from tree to tree and eat fruit in the rain forest. Smallholders are looking for a way to make money and raise their standard of living. There are not a lot of options in Indonesia and Malaysia for them. One way is to grow oil palms. But to do that they need land
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TNReady Argumentation Wildlife crossings should be built to protect turtles and tortoises. There are more and more turtles and reptiles getting ran over. The wildlife officers and game wardens want to make the ecopassages more acceptable to wildlife. To make them actually go through them than to find openings in the fence and get out on the road and get ran over. Many wildlife associations give money for these projects to benefit for the animals, They captured turtles and put tracking devices
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"A measure of success in [peace] is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run"(Leopold 2). Tis quote from "Thinking Like a Mountain" supports that fact that author Aldo Leopold believes that humans should try to conserve nature as much as possible without changing the animals' natural habits. Similarly, in the documentary Cold Warriors: Wolves vs. Buffalo, director Jeff Turner explains that in Wood Buffalo National
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De-extinction is the process of modifying and transforming genes from today’s animals with extinct ancestors. Scientist take advantage of the three parts of natural genetic variation; mutation, gene flow, and sexual reproduction. Through these different genetic processes, genetic technology changes DNA sequences. The sequences are either replaced, transformed, or taken out, to receive DNA sequences similar to a certain extinct animal the original DNA is an ancestor of. For example, scientist used
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Have you ever thought about bringing animals back from the dead that you thought were cool? Would you want to bring back extinct animals? I think scientist should not bring back extinct animals/species. I think that scientist should not bring back extinct animals because they would have to bring back more than one animal, it will cost a lot of money,, and the environment might not be the same. Scientist should not bring back extinct animals from the past. Scientist don’t need to bring back extinct
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extinct. But in the past 30 Year’s the community , conservation groups and native tribes have put major efforts for the ferret to have a comeback, there are now approximately 370 in the wild . The black footed ferret is now a endangered species but with minimal numbers. A endangered species is a population or group of plants, animals and other organism that is at risk of extinction. Once a animal is extinct there gone for ever and it can put the ecosystem out of order. A major threat to the species of
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