Endangered Animals Chapter Summary

“Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life”(Levitt and Dubner 12). Levitt and Dubner once mentioned in their book “Freakonomics”. According to Oxford dictionary, incentives are something tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity (“incentives”). In business field, incentives are something given by bosses to encourage their employees to endeavour in bringing benefits to their business. For a simple example, the employee who hits the monthly or year sales target will get cash or prizes as incentives. Apparently, these incentives are something that motivates employees maintains their great performance and also to motivate other employee, whoever wants to get the incentives, work harder.

* Incentives-a promise of a reward in the future, as a result of particular behaviour or achievement-the element of ‘if…then’.

Many species vital to ensuring that today’s environment will thrive are becoming extinct. If a species is slowly dwindling, and in imminent danger of becoming nonexistent, this species is considered to be endangered. “One in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the world’s assessed plants on the… IUCN Red List are in jeopardy” (IUCN, 2016). According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, upwards of 16,000 species are threatened with extinction, including both plants and animals (IUCN, 2016). Before becoming endangered, a species will show warning signs, either by starting to lose biological diversity or by losing the habitats for that species to flourish in, or in the worst case, both. The word endangered can sometimes be confused with threatened, extirpated, or extinct. Extirpated refers to the state of a species where its population has died out in a certain area or range, but other populations of said species still exist elsewhere (Olden, Julian D., 2008). When a species is considered threatened, or vulnerable, this refers to the state of the species being susceptible to endangerment and extinction (“Extinction crisis escalates”). So if a species is threatened, the first signs of endangerment come along, which are similar signs to that of a species in danger of becoming threatened, including lack of genetic diversity, or overhunting may be evident. (“Extinction crisis escalates”). When a species is labelled

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), is helping save animals that people are killing. sometimes for no reason. No one knows why? The ESA was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973.. It was designed to help repopulate animals and help keep them from becoming extinct. The ESA is effective at preventing extinction because it helps keep animals alive and well populated, it increases tourism in National Parks, and also because no animal deserves to die unless it is a danger to someone or something.

The first chapter, "What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?’, discusses incentives. Here Levitt brings up the point of how incentives play an important role to help people get what they want. It’s not just students alone, but also the

An incentive, as defined by the author is “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.” Incentives, and how people respond to them, are the corner stone in understanding human behaviors and modern life. In this chapter, the author has identified the three basic varieties of incentives; economics, social, and moral (Levitt and Dubner 17).

What are the origins and history of the Endangered species act?Congress started the Endangered Species Act in 1966 to list native animal species as endangered animal and give them more protection than they had. They tried to create the animals home like the habitat they live and so they can survive longer and not go to extinct. So as time goes by they are collecting more and more extinct animals to give more population in the species.

An endangered species is defined by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as "an animal or plant species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range." In the United States, these animals can be listed under and protected by the Endangered Species Act. Endangered Species in the United States include the black-footed ferret and the California red-legged frog. The International Union for Conservation of Nature also keeps a Red List of Threatened Species, the most widely recognized list of endangered and threatened species. On this list, for example, are all the surviving subspecies of tiger, which range from endangered to critically

Until lunch time, I enjoy the cool breezes whistling through the trees. I sit and look for any animal, any insect in sight. Once I find one, I lock in on it and study the way it moves, what it eats, and all other things it does. Maybe it is watching me, I love these moments, I feel as if me and the animal has connected for a split second before they decide to scurry off. For lunch I head back to my camp and munch on granola or eat something I can roast of the fire, trying to hurry up my eating so I can explore and study the wild some

Since the beginning of life itself, some species have lived and prospered while other species have gone extinct never to be seen again by mankind. Because of this, some would claim that extinction is natural and not significantly problematic to the world that we live in. Others, however, understand that due to climate change, habitat loss, and poaching, more and more species are becoming endangered which leads to a chain reaction that can be devastating to ecosystems. Species such as the Chinook salmon, gorillas, tropical sharks, and polar bears are all directly affected by climate change, species such as northern spotted owls, Sumatran tigers, and lemurs are greatly harmed due to habitat loss, and species such as the sea turtle, Javan rhinoceros, African elephant, and the Red-Fronted Macaw are all affected by poaching driving them all closer and closer to becoming extinct.

In its essence, an incentive is a deliberate proposal calculated to make a person choose a certain action. Thus, the reason why incentives are so popular in society is because everything and

Something that I am very passionate about is animal conservation. I have been passionate about animal conservation for as long as I can remember. I was first introduced to animal conservation when I started watching different television shows by Jeff Corwin and Steve Irwin. These two guys made it fun for me to learn about animals and how to protect them. Jeff would travel the world in search for endangered animals for the purpose of spreading knowledge about endangered species around the world. Steve Irwin did not travel outside of Australia unless he had to usually, he used his zoo to teach and the biggest thing about him was rescuing crocodiles. These crocodiles were either too close to humans or were in an unhealthy environment. Steve always

1. Animals are endangered and becoming extinct, because humans have no regards for the natural habitat that animals need to survive, less causing animal death which pollutes soil.

money’ and ‘one action gives rise to another’. That means if people are rewarded they will be motivated

incentives” (p. 8). Each of these elements can be incorporated within an organization as a