Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 has become the strongest and most important federal law in the protection of imperiled wildlife and plants. It has played a big role as the forerunner of animal rights in the U.S political system outside of domesticated species. It federally prohibits against the “taking” of an endangered species, enabling “protections making it illegal to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, collect, or attempt to do these things to these animals and…

Poachers kill them mainly for their horns and tails. People would pay about $50,000 for two horns from one single black rhino. That’s a lot of money involved so poachers can’t resist it. In some cultures, superstition also plays a roll for black rhino’s body parts; the people used to hang one of their tails in a room where a woman is giving birth and it’s suppose to help ease with labor pains. Since some people believe in that they would go out and buy a rhino’s tail. Black rhinos are like…

According to scientists, around 150-200 species of plant and animal go extinct every 24 hours. This statistic doesn’t seem so shocking until the realization comes that this is almost 1,000 times the natural rate for extinction. Humans contribute a great amount to this pandemic. A prime example is that of the dodo bird, which was famously hunted into extinction. Around 20,000 species are currently listed as threatened by extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).…

The University of New Hampshire stated “They found 53 species with a distribution that overlaps the area of the oil spill that are categorized as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable by the IUCN Red List. Of these, only 14 receive legal protection in the United States under the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or the Marine Mammal Protection Act.”2 Not only average healthily populated animals but dozens species that are at risk of disappearing off the face of…

Overall, when humans take trees down it may replenish our resources for a while, but it will have a longer impact on the world than ever. If it keeps going like this, many animals will become endangered, or worse, extinct. The Earth's air quality will become worse then ever, and increase the effect that global warming has on the environment. What the society needs to do is step up and start to make regulations on these businesses that are cutting…

average abundance of originally present species across a broad range of species, relative to abundance in an undisturbed habitat. 2. What four pressure variables were investigated? (p. 290) a. The four pressure variables that this paper focused on were land use, land-use intensity, human population density, and proximity to the nearest road. 3. The “average local abundance of originally present species has globally fallen to” 84.6%. 4. If you consider “novel” species to contribute beneficially…

Blue Whale My animal is the Blue Whale. It is an endangered species. Endangered means that a animal or plant in danger of extinction in the near future throughout most or all of the world. Threatened means any species likely to become an endangered species in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of its range as defined in the Endangered Species Act. Blue whales are mainly found in open oceans from the icy waters of the very near Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere to the…

wolves. After the Senate withdrew the gray wolf from the endangered species list, in 2011, the slaughtering of wolves began to escalate again. This caused wolf hunters to fall deeper into their paranoid fantasy that wolves represents a liberal conspiracy against farmland and livestock. The species of wolves are on the brink of losing federal protection across the nation. With the removal of the wolf from the endangered species list, the wolf species will dwindle in population, like it did in the…

Science “In April 2011, the US Congress intervened in gray wolf (Canis lupus) policy by inserting a budget bill rider that removed federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for wolf populations (i.e., delisted them) in the states of Montana and Idaho and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Utah (USFWS 2009). This left wolf populations classified as endangered in most of the United States, except in Minnesota, where they are threatened, and Alaska, where they are unlisted. However, wolves in…

Environmental based ethical dilemma on two species of OWLs This Environmental ethical dilemma is on two species of owl – Northern Spotted owl and Barred owl. Northern Spotted owl is a medium-sized dark brown owl sixteen to nineteen inches in length. Most Spotted owls occur on US federal lands (Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service lands), although significant numbers occur on state lands in all three states, and on private and tribal properties. The northern…