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1. Endangered
Means
There’s
Still
Time

2. WHAT DOES ENDANGERED
SPECIES MEAN?
• When a species is likely to become endangered, it is
called a threatened species.
• When a species is in danger of extinction, it is called an
endangered species.
• When a species is no longer existing or living, it is called
being extinct.
• The first step (in Kansas) is called SINC,
• Species in need of conservation

3. WHY ARE SPECIES
ENDANGERED?
• Endangered animals are animals that are in danger of
becoming extinct.
• Causes include:
• Habitat destruction / population pressure
• Collection and hunting / poaching
• New plants and animals being introduced that
don’t belong there
• Pollution
• See HIPPO

4. H.I.P.P.O.
• Habitat Loss – the biggest, most common reason
• Introduced Species – invaders like the python in the
everglades
• Pollution – especially toxic chemicals and pesticides
• Population Growth – more and more people
• Over-consumption – those people want more and
more stuff.

5. WHY SOME SPECIES ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BECOME EXTINCT.
• Specialization
• Blackfooted ferret
• Warbler and turtles, nesting sites
• Low biotic potential
• Elephants, whales, sharks
• Non-adaptive behavior
• Opossum and armadillo
• Carolina parakeet

6. SAVING ENDANGERED
SPECIES
• Species approach
• Manage for that species specific problem
• Wood duck (nesting sites), birds of prey (DDT)
• Zoo approach
• Short term only
• Oryx, cheetah
• Ecosystem approach
• Only long term fix
• Wildlife biology management

7. CITES
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Flora and Fauna
• Treaties that band trade.
• Problems with enforcement (ivory, rhino horn, etc.)

8. FEDERAL POLICIES
• The first federal policy for the protection of endangered
species was the Endangered Species Preservation
Act, passed in 1966. This act was replaced in 1969 with the
Endangered Species Conservation Act, which acted to
strengthen the legislation. Finally, in 1973, the Endangered
Species Act was passed. This act was recently reauthorized.
• The responsibility for the management of endangered
species in terrestrial and freshwater habitats falls on the Fish
and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. For
marine species, responsibility lies with with the National
Marine Fisheries Service of the Department of
Commerce.

9. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE SPECIES?
• They serve medicinal purposes.
• All kinds of plants and animals
contribute to some kind of
prescription medication.
• About 40% of all prescriptions
written today are made from
the natural compounds of
different species.
• Digitalis, a heart medication
which saves more than 3 million
heart disease sufferers, is made
from the purple foxglove, an
endangered plant. The purple foxglove is a
medicinal plant that is currently
endangered.

10. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE
SPECIES? (CONT’D)
• They serve agricultural purposes.
• Wild relatives of common crops such as wheat and corn
contain disease-resistant material essential to humans.
• These plants also provide people with ways to develop
new crops for lands that don’t normally grow crops well.

11. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE
SPECIES? (CONT’D)
• These animals are very important to the
ecology of out earth.
• Since people depend on many different
ecosystems for food and water, when a species is in
trouble, it is a sign that the ecosystem isn’t doing well.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that losing one
plant species can trigger the loss of up to 30 other
insect, plant, and other higher animal species.

12. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE
SPECIES? (CONT’D)
• Many species are raised for commercial
purposes.
• Salmon fishing in the Pacific Northwest U.S. has created
over 60,000 jobs and $1 billion annually in personal
income.
• These jobs and income are in trouble, though, because of
a decline in the salmon population due to habitat
destruction.
This salmon is one
endangered animal currently
raised for commercial
purposes.

13. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE
SPECIES? (CONT’D)
• These animals also serve recreational
purposes.
• Zoos and other animal exhibits often
help bring in tourism, while helping to
educate about these animals.

14. WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THESE
SPECIES? (CONT’D)
• And one last reason. A Moral obligation to…
• The people that depend on those species and
• Future generations
• If we don’t help to save these animals, they will soon
die out, and then they’d be gone forever, leaving
future generations without the chance to get to see
and learn about all these creatures.

15. LET,S HAVE A LOOK
WE DO NOT INTEND TO HARM OR
BREAK ANY HARMONY BY
SHOWING THIS VIDEO.

17. ENDANGERED ANIMALS
African Elephant
Giant Panda
Koala Bear

18. ENDANGERED ANIMALS
(CONT’D)Bald Eagle
Spix’s Macaw
Spanish Imperial Eagle
California Condor

19. ENDANGERED PLANTS
Abutilon menziesii, the flowering
maple from Hawaii
The
Lupine,
in Palo
Alto, CA
The
purpurea,
found all over
North
America
Mead’s
Milkweed

20. ENDANGERED PLANTS
(CONT’D)
Dwarf Mountain Pine Camellias
Blagay Daphne
Small Whilte
Lady’s Slipper

21. ENDANGERED PLANT NUMBERS
• Currently, there are over
• 714 flowering plants
• 5 kinds of conifers and
cyads
• 26 kinds of ferns
• 2 kinds of lichens
The Black Lace Cactus is one plant
that is currently on the endangered
list.

22. ENDANGERED ANIMAL
NUMBERS
• Currently, there are over
• 342 mammals
• 271 birds
• 115 reptiles
• 30 amphibians
• 125 fish
• 48 insects
• 21 crustaceans
that are endangered in the world today.

23. WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Get educated about local endangered species
• Visit a nearby national wildlife refuge or nature
center
• Volunteer
• Don’t buy species illegally taken from the wild
• Don’t buy products made from threatened or
endangered species.

24. THE CONCLUSION
.THE MAIN CAUSE IS POPULATION GROWTH INCREMENT
+ THE NONADAPTIVE NATURE OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS
.POPULATION GROWTH LEADS TO DISBALANCE IN NATURE
[ UN ESTIMATION -> 1800-> 2 billion …. 2100-> 17 billion ]
.ENCOURAGEMENT OF WILDLIFE ORGANISATIONS SUCH
AS WWF,DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE,CENTER FOR DIVERSITY.
.EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO CONTROL AND MONITOR THE
ENDANGERED SPECIES’ BEHAVIOUR.
.TEACHING YOUNGSTERS T0 CARE FOR MOTHER NATURE,
THE SPECIES PRESENT AND THERE PROPER BALANCE.
.SPEND 50% OF DOANTION ON SAVING NATURE AND THE
ENDANGERED SPECIES

25. .THESE SPECIES DON’T HAVE ANY PARLIAMENT OR
JUDICIARY FOR THEM TO SPEAK UP THERE PROBLEMS.
.WE HAVE TO TAKE A PROPER CARE AND BALANCE THE
UNBALANCED SCALE TO THE MARK.
TODAY , MORE THAN EVER BEFORE LIFE MUST BE
CHARACTERISED BY A SENSE OF UNIVERSAL
RESPONSIBILITY , NOT ONLY NATION TO NATION &
HUMAN TO HUMAN BUT ALSO HUMAN TO OTHER
FORMS OF LIFE.
- TENZIN GYATSO