Endangered Species

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Endangered Species
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• Endangered Species are plants or animals that are
  in danger of extinction (dying out).
• Over 8,300 plants and 7,200 animal species around
  the world are threatened with extinction.
• The main cause of extinction or endangerment is
  habitat destruction commercial exploitation (such
  as plant collecting, hunting, and trade in animal
  parts) and pollution.
• Since the 1600s the rate of extinction has
  increased rapidly because of human population
  growth and human resource consumption.

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Endangered species prevention act

• The endangered species prevention act was passed
  in 1966.
• This allowed listing of only native animal
  species as endangered and provided limited
  protection for the animals listed.
• The Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969
  was passed to provide additional protection to
  species in danger of worldwide extinction.
• Violation of the act will be a 2,000-5,000 fine
  with 9 months imprisonment for an intentional
  taking and you would also have suspension of
  hunting license privileges.

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Some solutions on helping endangered species.

• choosing the gender of cattle, horses, sheep,
  goats and pigs to be female so females can have
  more babies.
• Another way to improve their population is
  captive breeding.
• Genetic cloning is also a way to help endangered
  species later but only as a last resort.

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Some Endangered or threatened Species

• Siberian Tiger (endangered)
• African Wild Dog (endangered)
• African Elephant (Threatened) 
• American Alligator (endangered)
• Asian Lion (endangered)
• Bald Eagle (Threatened)
• Blue Whale (endangered)
• Sea Otter (Threatened)
• Snow Leopard (Threatened)
• White Pelican (Threatened)
• White Rhino (endangered)

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Endangered Siberian Tiger
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About the Siberian tiger

• The Siberian tiger is found in eastern Siberia
  and also in Northern China and Korea.
• The Siberian tiger is the largest living cat in
  the world. They can be 9 to 12 feet long and are
  about 3 and a half feet long they weigh between
  400-650 pounds.
• The Siberian tiger is endangered for several
  different reasons like they were hunted and
  killed for different proposes like in China they
  were killed traditionally for medicines.
• There are now less than 200 kinds of species left
  in the wild. After world war 2 they almost
  disappeared from the wild but the soviet union
  took measures to restore their population.

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Bald Eagle

• The largest number of northern bald eagles are in
  the Northwest, especially in Alaska.
• Bald eagles were officially declared an
  endangered species in 1967 in all areas of the
  United States
• Until 1995, the bald eagle had been listed as
  endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43
  of the 48 lower states, and listed as threatened
  in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington and
  Oregon.
• There are proposals which prohibit disturbing the
  bald eagle, which include disruption of its
  breeding, feeding or sheltering practices, which
  could cause death.
• Officials said the action could lead to the
  removal of the bald eagle from the "threatened"
  species list within the next year or so.

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