The Threatened Northern Spotted Owl Imagine you’re a spotted owl mother who just hatched her 4 newborn owlet children. Obviously you’re thrilled to be starting this new chapter of your little owl life with a brand new family but you’re also shadowed with the fear of the young ones safety. The Great Horned and Barred Owl are stalking your new members for a late night snack and the opportunity to run you out of your home like the true savages they are. As their numbers in population increase‚ your
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One of the major invasive species here in Florida is Australian pine. Australian pine trees threaten beach plant communities as they quickly invade beaches. They have also invaded Everglades. These trees produce a dense leaf litter beneath them thereby outcompeting native vegetation. They have shallow root systems and hence tend to uproot and topple during high winds and pose a significant hazard to coastal storm evacuation routes. Australian pine forests provide little or no native wildlife habitat
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The smallest rail in North America‚ the Black Rail is perhaps the most secretive too "Kick-ee-doo" call is heard primarily at night.The black rail may be the most endangered bird species along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America.Today I am going to tell you about an animal called the Black Rail the scientific name is Laterallus jamaicensis. Over the past 10-20 years‚ some reports indicate that populations have declined 75% or greater and have become dangerously low.The bird also lays
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Animal Trafficking Animal Trafficking‚ I’m interested in this topic because I have known for a while about animal trafficking in Brazil. Animal trafficking is a really big issue in Brazil because there are a lot of endangers and different varied of species. Animal Trafficking became a major issue and know is one of the issue that many people are trying to help and stop. Animals from different part of the world are also being trafficked. It just isn’t animals its everything‚ for instance some plants
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Should Scientists Bring Back Extinct Beasts? | | By: Megan Gannon Published: March 21‚ 2013 The Source: http://www.wunderground.com JONATHAN S. BLAIR/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC This photo shows a museum worker inspecting a replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)‚ a relative of modern elephants that went extinct 3‚000 to 10‚000 years ago. Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat’s
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While they are not an endangered species‚ they are hunted mercilessly by the fish industry especially off the coasts of China‚ Japan and parts of the North Pacific by the Russians (Ivashchenko 73). This extreme hunting has left the oceans with an unknown number of whales and thus‚
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Human Affect on Wildlife How would you feel if someone came into your home and completely destroyed it? We‚ humans‚ are becoming increasingly more dangerous to our own environment‚ and with that comes negative effects on out wild life. Animals are getting fatal diseases‚ losing their habitat‚ and ultimately‚ losing their lives. We are not only endangering the animals‚ but ourselves as well. We cannot survive without the animals on earth. “They do two times more for us than all of the industries
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incredible animal that resides in mountain‚ forest areas; they mostly resemble the average dog. Wolves are very necessary to balance the ecosystem by naturally controlling the population of animals that eat vegetation. Wolves also help evolution in other species. These creatures are needed by the natural community to maintain the delicate balance of life. Without them‚ caribou‚ deer‚ elk and rabbits and many more animals would clear the land of plants‚ and the ecosystem would be unable to maintain itself
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100 zoos do the breeding program and help save the species. But have you ever wondered how they do it? Have even wondered if the zoos are helping these endangered species or if there making it worse? Well the way they do it is they put the female and the male together in a cage and they stay in that enclosure. But when it think about this‚ it makes me wonder what would thoses animals like being forced to breed with some other animal of there species when they don’t want too‚ another reason I think
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Lets start with a definition of ecotourism‚ if there is such a thing. For some people‚ it means travel that is environmentally friendly. For others‚ it is a synonym for ethical or responsible travel. It’s a new field and definitions are still evolving. My definition of ecotourism falls somewhere in-between: tourism that has as little impact on the environment as possible‚ that respects local culture and that helps promote livelihoods. Ecotourism is possible anywhere: travel across Africa‚ and
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