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Jan 5, 2024 · Humans must protect endangered animals because human activity is a major threat. We’re currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction event, marked by alarming declines in the number of insects, vertebrates, and plant species worldwide. Left unchecked, this could completely change the planet as we know it, devastating ecosystems and life ...
- Survival of The Worthiest?
- Picking Winners and Losers
- The Case For The Monarch — and Everything Else
- How You Can Help The Monarch Butterfly
In 1859, Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection changed the way humans understand animals' unique attributes, as well as explaining why some species thrive while others die out: the survival of the fittest. But humans have always had a hand in picking the winners and losers of the animal kingdom, based on whether they're tasty, cute or useful...
In deciding how heavily to invest in saving any species, governments around the world use various criteria: the species' uniqueness, its likelihood of recovery, the fiscal cost, and what benefits it would bring. In Canada, an independent advisory body assesses whether species should be regarded as endangered, but the federal government makes the fi...
Canadian advocates for the monarch argue the butterfly is more than just a pretty face — and its utility is one more reason to save it. "It's a pollinator [and] we need pollinators to survive — we cannot eat fruit and vegetables if there's no pollinators," said Alessandro Dieni, an ecologist and co-ordinator of the Insectarium de Montréal's Mission...
Canadians can help by observing monarch butterflies in their community and monitoring milkweed during the International Monarch Monitoring Blitzfrom July 29 to Aug. 7. People can also help by planting milkweed, or leaving it be, for monarchs to lay their eggs on, and avoiding using pesticides that might kill the weed or the insects that rely on it....
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Nov 1, 2023 · The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved from extinction, but after 50 years, we have to do much more to prevent a biodiversity crisis. By Robert Kunzig. Snail ...
Congress answered these questions in the preamble to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, recognizing that endangered and threatened species of wildlife and plants “are of aesthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value to the Nation and its people.”. In this statement, Congress summarized convincing ...
One of the best ways to protect endangered species is to prevent their decline and deterioration in the first place. Toward that end, National Wildlife Federation works to maintain healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plant species through promoting broad-based conservation efforts such as State Wildlife Action Plans.
Speak up for species and places through WWF's Action Center. Make a symbolic animal adoption to help save some of the world's most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF's conservation efforts. From elephants to polar bears, WWF fights to secure a future for animals on the planet we all share. WWF helped bring back the Amur tiger ...
Mar 26, 2019 · March 26, 2019. The Trump administration has proposed to strip the gray wolf of its endangered status. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was established in 1973 to protect “imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend” and help them recover. The Trump administration has put forth a number of proposals that would weaken the ESA.
