- Species of Concern Across America: Find Your State
The endangered dusky gopher frog, which spends most of its life underground in burrows created by species like gopher tortoises, is considered to be one of the 100 most endangered species in the world and is now found in only four locations in Mississippi’s Harrison and Jackson Counties This species faces extreme challenges as gopher
- endangered species - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
The 1973 Endangered Species Act addressed the issue of why an endangered species of plant or animal should be offered formal protection As stated in the act, such species “are of esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value to the Nation and its people ”
- Rhino Species | Learn | Save the Rhino International
Three of the five rhino species are Critically Endangered and two are threatened Learn more about each species and how you can get involved with rhino conservation
- Florida Manatee - Marine Mammal Commission
The Florida manatee is a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, which, until 2017, was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) However, in 2012, FWS received a petition requesting that all West Indian manatees, including Florida manatees and the second subspecies, Antillean manatees, be reclassified from endangered to
- Fact Sheet: Bees - Earth Day
There are 20,000 distinct bee species around the world, with 4,000 of them in the United States alone From 2006-2015, approximately 25% fewer species were found Under the best scenario, thousands of bee species have already become too rare [1]
- Human preferences for species conservation: Animal charisma . . .
We found no effect of connectedness with nature on participants' choices in favour of charismatic, phylogenetically distant or more endangered species (Table 3) Similarly, choice of charismatic, phylogenetically distant or more endangered species was not related to respondents' age, and concern for biodiversity (Table 3)
- 20,000 Species Are Near Extinction: Is it Time to Rethink How . . .
As a result, the endangered species may have more money spent on it than any other In 2010, the cost of managing tiger reserves alone cost at least $82 million, according to the Economist
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