Endangered Species Act

hunting only to certain species is another option. If neither of these two solutions works, there is always the option of stopping trophy hunting all together. The most successful hunting areas are those in first world countries.…

The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation (LDF) was founded in 1998. The mission of the Dicaprio Foundation is to “protect the world’s last wild places ”. They do so through six avenues: Wildland Conservation, Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California, and Innovative Solutions. Through fundraising, LDF has successfully been able to make grants and support other projects with their same mission in mind worldwide. Through Leonardo’s personal social media, his…

Have you ever heard of the West African Black Rhinoceros? As of 2011 this species is extinct and society could have prevented it (Gerkens). The species is thought to have died off, because of poaching, but taking precautions could have prevented their extinction. This is just one example of Earth’s deterioration with irreversible consequences that could have been averted. Societies use Earth and all of its resources and expects no repercussions. The environmental crisis is real and needs to be…

Film Essay The Zookeeper's wife, directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman, has a Holocaust-related theme. Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain), Jan Zabinski's (Johan Heldenbergh), the zookeeper’s, wife assists in caring for their zoo and her family. The zoo brings the whole family and town together, and the entertaining animals bring joy to everyone. Conversely, they are to find out that the Germans were going to turn their Polish town and cozy lives upside-down. Antonina's faith to…

Biology Assignment Mega Fauna Scientific Name: Genyornis Newtoni Common Name: Genyornis Newtoni (Thunder Bird) General Description: Genyornis Newtoni was the last of the large, flightless mihirungs native to Australia. Genyornis was a heavy built bird that stood over 2 metres tall, with small wings and massive hind legs. Mihirungs had deep lower jaws and a distinctly shaped quadrate bone that connect the upper and lower jaw. Genyornis had a wedge-shaped head to go along with its unusually…

10,000 years ago there were many different types of saber-tooths there wasn't just one species. Theres i not really a good explanation on how the famous sabertooths went extinct but because other animals were dying because there was not enough resources for them to feed off. That's not the reason why many died according to (DeSantis and Ungar)…

Endangered Pangolins People are trying to save Pangolins because it is the most illegally traded animal in the world and before they are eaten to extinction. There are up to 100,000 Pangolins that are estimated to be hunted and sold every year. Which is making them the most traded animal in the world. How are people helping: Well people are trying to find these animals in the wild and to put them in a safe place where they don’t have to be hunted and also so they don’t go extinct. Well and when…

The tiger is the largest of the 37 species of cats in the world and unfortunately has recently become the most endangered of all the large wild cats. All tigers face two major threats. One is habitat destruction. This not only results in less territory for the cats to live in but also leaves the tigers' territory fragmented into separate islands making is hard for tigers to mate, which make it difficult for the species to survive. Conservation efforts are often aimed at creating sanctuaries,…

There are only about 500 Amur tigers left in the wild. One of these endangered Amur tigers, Zolushka, which means Cinderella in Russian, gave birth to two cubs, that doubled the parks population. Zolushka is named after cinderella because she is an orphan. She lost her own mother when she was just four months old. Soon after two curious hunters found her alone in Russia, likely orphaned by poachers. She was starving and had frostbite, so the two hunters took her to a wildlife department. She had…

Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) put forth a decision that ordered international attempts to preserve the life of the Bengal tiger. In 1972, WWF developed Operation Tiger, a worldwide program that supports conservation attempts for endangered species in India, Indochina and Indonesia. Due to Operation Tiger, many countries where tigers inhabited created tougher laws on wildlife protection. India took another step forward when, in 1973, the government created the Tiger Task…