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Endangered Species

Endangered Species. A CONNECTING CLASSROOMS PROJECT. Importance of saving animals . To maintain ecological 'balance of nature' and maintain food chain and nature cycles. It has economic value. Many wild plants provide useful substances like timber, paper, gums etc.

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Endangered Species

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  1. Endangered Species A CONNECTING CLASSROOMS PROJECT

  2. Importance of saving animals • To maintain ecological 'balance of nature' and maintain food chain and nature cycles. • It has economic value. Many wild plants provide useful substances like timber, paper, gums etc. • Wild life of a country is its cultural asset.

  3. Many species are already extinct. • Dodo • Elephant Bird • Tasmanian Wolf • Quagga • Caspian Tiger • Irish Deer • Saber-toothed Tigers • Haast’s Eagle

  4. Some endangered species. Here are some endangered species: • Red Panda • Indian Langur • Peregrine Falcon • One-Horned Rhinoceros • American Bison • California Condor

  5. Example of the decreases in the animal population. • Tigers are one of the main examples of decreasing of animal life, earlier there used to be thousands of tigers in India, but now there are only 1411 tigers left in India. Out of six tiger species, three are already extinct!

  6. How can you conserve the endangered species? • You can conserve wildlife by giving them access to proper nutrition. • They must not be killed. Rare species of animals must be taken to the wild life conservatory.  • Various projects and wildlife conservation programmes like Project Tiger should be started. • Ban on poaching and hunting . 

  7. Major wildlife conservation organizations • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds • The Nature Conservancy • World Wildlife Fund • Natural Resources Defense Council • Oceana • Wildlife Conservation Society

  8. Major threats to wildlife • Habitat loss • Climate change • Pesticides and toxic chemicals • Hunting and poaching • Natural phenomena • Pollution • Over-exploitation of resources • Accidental deaths

  9. Please save animals!!!

  10. Prepared by Ishleen Arora Grade 6 The End

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