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Endangered Animals & Extinction

Endangered Animals & Extinction . How does it happen? What’s already gone? . Activity. Share the endangered animal you brought for homework with your group, and information about how it happened. 10 minutes. Post Activity Discussion. What surprised you by some of your peers’ animals?

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Endangered Animals & Extinction

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  1. Endangered Animals & Extinction How does it happen? What’s already gone?

  2. Activity • Share the endangered animal you brought for homework with your group, and information about how it happened. • 10 minutes

  3. Post Activity Discussion • What surprised you by some of your peers’ animals? • What are common ways that your animals became endangered/extinct? • Do you think that there are ways we can help?

  4. Causes for Endangerment • Habitat Destruction • Exotic Species • Overexploitation • Diseases and Pollution

  5. Classifications • Vulnerable Species • Threatened Species • Endangered Species • Extinct Species

  6. What is the government doing? • Endangered Species Act of 1973 • Wild Bird Conservation Act of 1992 • National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 • Marin Mammal Protection Act

  7. Activity • In your groups, you have three signs sitting in front of you: • SAFE • ENDANGERED • EXTINCT • I’ll put up a picture of a living organism, and in your group, you’ll have 10 seconds to discuss if you think its safe, endangered, or extinct. When you hear the buzzer, hold up your team decision. • Whoever gets the most right, gets +100 points on the Jeopardy review tomorrow!

  8. PescadoStubfot Toad

  9. Endangered! • This toad, which lives in Southwestern Ecuador has been threatened by habitat destruction due to logging and agricultural expansion. • We don’t know how many are left! 

  10. Aardvark

  11. SAFE!

  12. Sheath Tailed Bat

  13. Endangered! • There are only 100 of these bats left! They only live in caves in Seychelles. • Habitat destruction and predation by invasive species have decreased its numbers. • How to help? • Remove the invasive vegetation and control the introduced predators, along with legal action.

  14. West African Black Rhino

  15. Extinct!  These rhinos were declared extinct in 2006 and their last remaining habitat was in Cameroon. Poachers hunted the rhino for its horn!

  16. Tarzan’s Chamelon

  17. Endangered! • We don’t know how many of these cool chameleons are left! • Only live in eastern Madagascar, and are threatened by habitat loss from growing agriculture. • Action needed? • Support for community conservation and protection of its habitat!

  18. Harris’s Hawk

  19. SAFE!

  20. Golden Toad

  21. Extinct!  These beautiful toads was a fluorescent amphibian found in Costa Rica, but due to pollution and global warming, they became extinct in 1989.

  22. Pale Throated Sloth

  23. SAFE!

  24. AraipeManakin

  25. Endangered! • 779 individuals remaining! • Live in Brazil, and have dwindling numbers because of increased agriculture and water diversion. • How we can help? • Need legal protection of their environments, and protection of the springs and streams!

  26. Geometric Tortoise

  27. Western Spotted Skunk

  28. SAFE!

  29. Endangered! • We don’t know how many are left, but they live in South Africa • The main threats are habitat destruction and degradation. They’ve also been hunted. • We need to create reserves and manage fires in these regions!

  30. Spix’s Macaw

  31. Extinct!  These beautiful blue bird doesn’t exist in the wild anymore. Habitat destruction and illegal trapping has decreased the numbers of this bird dramatically.

  32. Dark Sided Thrush

  33. SAFE!

  34. Rosa Arabica

  35. Endangered! • Yes, flowers can be endangered too guys! • There are only 10 sub populations of these remaining, and they lie primarily in Egypt. • These pretty flowers have many medicinal values, but because of animal grazing, climate change, and drought, many have been lost! • We need to protect against human exploitation!

  36. Fat Tailed Dwarf Lemur

  37. SAFE!

  38. Passenger Pigeon

  39. EXTINCT!  These pigeons were hunted as crop. These birds used to be all over the skies less than 100 years ago, but humans have gotten rid of them. Last one died in 1914.

  40. American Crocodile

  41. Almost went Extinct…but now SAFE!  In 1975, these crocodiles were listed as endangered, but because hunting stopped for their skin and zoos started collecting them, their population sizes went up!

  42. You CAN help! • Just like the American Crocodile…we CAN help save animals that currently endangered. • Tomorrow: We will be thinking of creative ways we can help the earth and certain animals!

  43. Resources • http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Education/Education_PDFs/Endangered_Animals_curr.pdf • http://science.discovery.com/creatures/10-extinct-species.htm • http://www.esasuccess.org/ • http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/recently-extinct-animals-list-470209#slide-11

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