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    The causes of panthers becoming endangered consisted of expansion, highway construction, residential expansions, and many other reasons. Another factor contributing to the extinction of Florida Panthers are their health. With not having many animals for sources of nutrients, the panthers…

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    Stop Poaching In Africa

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    goods such as their fur, tusks, or horns. There is also a demand for live baby animals, such as gorillas. These babies can sell for up to 40, 000 dollars a gorilla. If the babies are taken away, the species can not repopulate when the adults die.The removal of their youth leaves gorillas critically endangered and possibly gone by 2020. Zebras are hunted for fur. Only about 2,000 are left in the wild. Poaching across Africa can be decreased by legalizing ivory sales from conservations, tagging…

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    left is a metaled, glassed cage filled with coal- black and white, fluffy, giant pandas. Everything in life seems alright for them, but what about their family members that are in the wild? What about the panda bears that are still out in the wild endangered? Ailuropoda melanoleucas, or commonly known as giant pandas, are rarely found in the wild. East of the Tibetan plateau in South China in a mixed broadleaf forest is home to the giant panda. There are only around 1600 panda bears on the earth…

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    Ethical Benefits Of Zoos

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    keeping animals in zoos, zoos are actually beneficial to the wild because they are a main component in the conservation of endangered plants and animals. Zoos do not tend to be inhumane…

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    primary cause for many species ' extinction and may be in part the cause of our modern skewed ecosystem, but the benefits to the environment hunting now…

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    Solano County

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    issued a Biological Opinion, in accordance with Section Seven of the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), concerning the Solano Project Water Service Contract Renewal between the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), United States Department of the Interior (USDOI), and the Solano County…

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    made into carpets and trophies. The trophy hunting hobby has ruined the lives of species, despite the claims of the pro-hunting groups. These animals are being massacred for fun, yet they are rapidly becoming endangered species. Beautiful creatures, such as lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and so many more are being put to death by rich men and women. Most of the animals that are hunted in Africa are either endangered, vulnerable, or threatened, meaning if these creatures continue to be…

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    There are three hundred species of birds, in which the Audubon's Crested Carcara, Piping Plover, Roseate Tern, and Red Knot are endangered. More than half of the life on Dry Tortugas consists of marine life. The American Crocodile, West Indian Manatee, Caribbean Monk Seal, Finback Whale, Humpback Whale, Right Whale and the famous, Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green Sea, Kemp's Ridley, and Leatherback Sea turtles are all endangered species. Beneath the Dry Tortugas islands, lies some…

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    litter. Babies can also lose their parents quickly while hatching season. Lucky, poachers don't always strike for the baby turtles. Some poachers leave the babies alone so that they can let it grow up and then kill it. There are alot of species of sea turtles. The Kemp's Ridley is the smallest of all turtles. The Kemp's Ridley is about twenty-four inches and weighs less than one-hundred pounds.The Olive Ridley is also a small turtle. It is twenty-four to thirty-six inches long. It…

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    billion. How can we continuously develop the world around us to benefit our lives, while at the same time preserving natural resources and species? So far, instead of trying to preserve the environment, we as humans have been destroying it in the process of developing our world. By overreaching the sustainability of our world, we have been depleting certain species of animals and plants to extinction, increasing global warming, destroying fresh waters and using up all of the available oil. This…

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