Benefits Of Single Species Recovery Programmes

The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years . Creatures across the land, rivers, and the seas are destroyed as humans killed them for food in unsuitable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats.

Conservation of our biodiversity not only demonstrates foresight, it protects the natural resources so vital to our own continued existence. The value of any single species to an ecosystem is immeasurable; the environment will not endure without its species, despite size or niche. These animals are not dispensable. And, they are apt to face extinction in the not too distant future, unless a resolve for their preservation is insisted by the public and enforced by governments internationally.

The National Wildlife Institute has published “Conservation Under the Endangered Species Act: A Promise Broken”. Their critique of the Act includes questioning the programs undertaken as a result of the Act have played sufficient roles in the recovery of species that were delisted, as well as questioning the allocation of funding to programs intended to aid listed species.

The Kaho’Olawe island restoration project is a one of the smallest Hawai’ian Islands located near Maui. The Island is the largest unpopulated offering an opportunity to protect the Hawai’ian species and culture. Kaho’Olawe Island historically support many Hawaii’s native plant and animals yet invasive species present on the island have destroyed native plants and animal’s populations and disruptive of other practices. ISLAND CONSERVATION (IC) is working with the Kaho’Olawe Island Reserve Commission ( KIRC ) to advance the restoration of the islands by the removing of invasive species such as rodents and feral Cats. This effort of removal of these invasive species will allow for the protection of native habitats and providing the opportunity

Some supporters of de-extinction believe it to be reasonable for reviving recently extinct species as a last resort in their conservation. However, it is a common belief among critics that it is of greater import to protect endangered species and reduce human impact so as to prevent extinction. Shapiro, a supporter of de-extinction, argues that de-extinction should not compete for funding with measures for protection of endangered species. However, she argues that both extinct and extant species have valuable roles in maintenance of the ecosystem (2015, p. 195). In the same paper, she admits that fears for an increase in the rate of extinction are valid for

In today’s world, hardly any species of wildlife become extinct from natural causes. Europeans hunt animals to such an extent that we classify it as overhunting. We destroy their habitat, and introduce other animals that are a threat to endangered animals or are competition for resources and food. Habitat destruction is the greatest threat to both animals and plants.

Over 128 Animal species are strongly believed to be extinct since European settlement in Australia. In an act to prevent marine pollution by controlling dumping of wastes and other matter, the Environment Protection Sea Dumping Act 1981 was introduced. The legislation outlines the policies and procedures to gain access to Australian waterways (Australian Government Department of Environment, 2015). The current legislation are not able to fully protect the natural environment, as the legislation only implies that permits are required for all sea dumping operations and for those court weak consequences are applied. For those reason, the Sea Dumping Act has been criticised for its ineffectiveness to control the waterways. This essay

Elizabeth Kolbert, a journalist, took her curiosity of science and traveled all around the world to see just how the lives of different varieties of species deal with predators, habitat changes, climate changes, etc. Just some of the places Kolbert visited were the United States, Panama, France, the island of Ischia, One Tree Island, and many, many more. Extinction, the disappearance of a particular species, is a crucial topic in this particular book. Many species over the whole entire world, are quickly declining in numbers. Humans have a vital responsibility for some of these species going extinct, and we need to advertise what we are doing to animals world wide so we aren’t a source of the majority of extinctions.

Imagine that Hawaii the tropical 50th state is losing all of it’s natural animal species because either animals had to migrate here or be brought over here by humans for a purpose which causes new or exotic invasive species to kill off many of the local endemic animals on Hawaii. Hawaii has lost many native animal species, including bird, reptile, and mammal species due to the very dangerous invading animals that cause countless problems such as predation, environmental harm, or human health issues. Throughout the years, many native animals are declining because of many reasons and that is why preserving Hawaiian species is a worldwide problem. The purpose of this paper is to share the history of why most of these animals are endangered through factual evidence.

Last but not the least it is necessary to note that there is insufficient done in New Zealand. Henceforth, essay, discussion and conclusion (recommendations) is based on the work done in the UK, Australia and USA.

As an apex predator, dingoes control the biodiversity of Australian wildlife by maintaining the control over population numbers of their prey and regulating numbers of subordinate mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats, thereby indirectly helping to protect various other animals (Allen, Engeman and Krupa, 1996). Letnic and Koch (2010) extrapolate that the disappearance of dingoes is likely to result in an increase in population numbers of kangaroos, rabbits and turkeys which are all known to be pests in Australia. Furthermore, there is a strong, positive relationship between the survival of threatened marsupials and their geographical overlap with high-density dingo populations (Fisher, Isaac and Johnson, 2007). Claridge and Hunt (2008) agree and continue to state that studies have shown dingo predation to have a negligible effect on conservation statuses of other threatened and endangered Australian species such as the northern bettong. However, Johnson and Wroe (2006) argue that it was the introduction of the dingo approximately 4000 years ago that led to the extinction of vertebrates on the Australian mainland such as the thylacine, the Tasmanian devil and the Tasmanian native hen. This is confirmed by a theory that states, “Predators can impose strong selective pressures on species that evolved in the predators’ absence and drive species to extinction,”

Bill Freedmen, author of “Endangered Species—Human Causes Of Extinction and Endangerment” notes, “scientists approximate that present extinction rates are 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the average natural extinction rate.” These distressing numbers should be acted upon to save the endangered species and avoid the catastrophic change to this planet if these species were to become extinct. In order to produce change, people need to recognize that habitat loss, climate change, and poaching are all factors in why our animal species are going extinct.

Analyse the impact of European contact in Māori between 1642 and prior to the sighing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

The Maori, “Children of Heaven”, are the indigenous people of New Zealand. It has been thought that Polynesian navigator Kupe, discovered New Zealand in 950 AD, and named the island Aotearoa, “Land of the long white cloud”.1 The Maori migrated to New Zealand from the tropical islands of

New Zealand’s landscape has changed extensively since the arrival of humans. Now, native and non-native species of both flora and fauna co-exist. People enjoy having wildlife around them and in recent years there has been a great deal of interest in urban wildlife.