“The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.”-Norm Dicks.More than 600 kinds of plants and 324 different animals in Missouri are of concern to conservationists because they are uncommon or their numbers are low or declining.Do you think that everyone in Missouri knows what is happening to many species of plants and animals because of the things we as humans are doing to them and their environment
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cutthroat trout are the California golden trout, the rainbow trout, the Paiute cutthroat trout, and the biologists. This paper will focus on these stakeholders when determining whether it is ethical to subject invasive species to pain and reduce invasive species populations. The first major ethical issue to consider when deciding whether it is ethical to manipulate animal populations is, whether it is ethical to cull invasive species to protect threatened species. It is not ethical to cull invasive
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Critically endangered is one of the worst words to use when describing a species and its status, apex predator is no longer the first thing that comes to mind when one hear the name Amur Leopard. Fear is no longer the first emotion that hits, instead the first words thought of are critically endangered, dangerously low, fragmented habitat and poaching, all terrible words and ideas to be associated with. The Amur leopard, also scientifically known as Panthera pardus orientalis, has long legs and long
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The National Wild Turkey Federation is an organization that helps preserve our wild turkeys. After a lot of work the number of turkeys on the land had a gained to the amount of seven million running around. The volunteers and staff have put a lot of money towards the wildlife conservation and the preservation of the turkeys. They made many acres of wildlife better and are bringing people in to experience the wildlife for the first time for some of them. The NWTF wants to improve the wild turkey
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Is bringing back an extinct species a moral or immoral idea for our environment? Many species that were once populous and thriving in our world are now gone and extinct because of poachers and hunters. Now, because of poachers, an increased number of different species remain on the brink of becoming extinct. The question is how can society help stop the extermination of various species? De-extinction could give us a chance to revive animals that have been gone for a long time and could benefit our
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The Gopher tortoises are indigenous to the southeastern portion of the United States. Currently, this fascinating reptile is endangered in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Unfortunately, the urbanization of tortoise habitats in Florida has caused concern for the survival of this species in years to come (Signore 2007). The gopher tortoise was considered threatened in Florida from 1991 to 2007. Although the tortoise is not currently on the threatened list, it is a specie
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The Komodo dragon is an endangered species. Komodo Dragons are facing endangerment, partially because of humans. Humans are affecting Komodo dragons. There are solutions like not hunting the Komodo dragons, not putting human developments where they live, and not hunting the main prey of Komodo dragons. Komodo dragons are facing endangerment because humans. Humans hunt deer near the habitat of Komodo dragons. This species is also endangered because of human developments. For example, humans build
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AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. Adopted: October 31, 2003 Revised: June 2010 On November 15, 2002, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) staff received an emergency petition (Glassberg 2002) to classify the Miami blue as an Endangered species. On November 15, 2002, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) staff
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settlement until the British established it in 1803.The newcomers did not affect the Emu at first, in the beginning years the Emu was still a thriving species reaching the thousands in population ; however near the 1830’s the Tasmanian Emu become an endangered species and just thirty years later in 1865 the last Tasmanian Emu was sighted adding it’s name upon the long list of extinct animals .The Emu was thought to have gone extinct from the result of a small land area, being hunted as a pest and having
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The poaching of a multitude of various animals is rapidly getting out of control and needs to come to a halt. It is known that in the 1970’s through the 1980’s a ninety six percent decrease in the rhinoceros population occurred. Prior to 1970 roamed 70,000 individual rhinoceros’; then after the massive amount of illegal killings by 1995 only 2,410 rhinos remained. Currently there are estimated to be about 3,000 rhinoceros left in the wild (“Rhino Conservation”). In the 1970’s through the 1980’s
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