The Conservation Status Of Endangered Species

One book that I would consider my favorite book is "Uglies by Devin Gryson, Scott Westerfeld, and Steven Cummings". The authors were so descriptive when writing the novel they made sure to give a vivid image of what was occurring and the give a visual image of each character. The main goal for the characters was to become "pretty" through a surgery they are required to go through when turning sixteen. The surgery changes their appearance as well as their personality to make sure everyone was equal. As for some character who don't want to go through the producers they plan to escape to a town called "The Smoke". The novel demonstrates a dystopia environment with the "Pretties", while the "Uglies" are seem less important in a sense. As I read

In their article “Recent Population Size, Trends, and Limiting Factors for the Double-Crested Cormorant in Western North America,” researchers Jessica Y. Adkins, and colleagues explain that the population growth of the double-crested cormorant has increased so much that it has had some significant environmental impacts. One example that Adkins, et al. had mentioned in their article is that there is a raised alarm over the predation of juvenile salmonids, especially down the Pacific coast, and Columbia Basin where the salmonids are recorded on the United States Endangered Species Act. The writers mentioned that the last time the double-crested cormorants were studied was back in 1987-2003, however as stated in the article, “Recent re-evaluations

Not many people understand the seriousness of endangered species. Some sources go as far as trying to prove that the act does more harm than good. They do not realize how drastically their lives can be changed if one part of the food chain is taken away. In the essay “Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf” by Mary Hannibal, the essayist explains that a group of environmental nonprofits would challenge the federal government’s removal of Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Wyoming. Hannibal does not explain the Endangered Species Act, but according to the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration it “provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of

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.

While people believed that the government had not gotten the best available scientific data to determine the status of the gray wolves in the United States, the “Endangered Species Act” specifies the stipulations that the government has to take in their determination of the quality of the research conducted. In the Act it says, “(b) BASIS FOR DETERMINATIONS.—(1) (A) The Secretary shall make determinations required by subsection (a) (1) solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available to him after conducting a review of the status of the species and after taking into account those efforts, [….]” (“Endangered Species Act” Section 4). Even though most people believe that, in some things they are better than others, people should tend to trust the federal government in certain choices that they make and let the government take the fall if it were to

The proposed rule begins by explaining the procedures the agency must follow under its enabling act, the Endangered Species Act, as amended (“Act”). The Act requires the USFWS to promptly publish in the Federal Register upon finding a species endangered or threatened throughout all or a portion of its range. The agency then must make a determination on the finding within one year, as well as designate a critical habitat “to the maximum extent prudent and determinable.” It is only through a rule that a species can be listed as endangered or

In the second category, there are three conservation statuses which are “critically endangered”, “endangered” and “vulnerable”. They differ in the risk of extinction; “critically endangered” species has the highest risk of extinction, followed by the remaining two. The third category consists of 3 conservation statuses: “conservation dependent”, “near threatened” and “least concern”, which differ from one another in terms of their needs to be included into conservation programs. By understanding the risk of going extinct of each species according to the Red List, international organizations and state governments can develop appropriate conservation program corresponding to each of them.

Canada’s government has many acts to help save and promote endangered species, and speak their problems to the public, but the acts are not enough. Both COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) and SARA (Species at Risk Act) are not enough and need to be enforced so that the laws can’t be over ridden as easily as they have in the past.

The National Park Service’s motto is, in other words, a pledge to preserve Earth’s natural resources before anything else- put preserving wildlife as their first priority (United, What). They have shown many times over that they will stick to this motto. One example is of the Mexican long-nosed bat, a species whose only home is now the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park (United, “Endangered”). The Service works especially hard to follow the Endangered Species Act of 1973 which defines any endangered species as a plant or animal in danger of dying out in a large portion of its range at the very least. It defines a threatened species as one that is likely to soon become endangered. All decisions to do with saving an animal are based on this act, which rescues many animals each year (United,

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is an environmental policy that is currently having problems with timely implementation of its policies. The current issue interfering with the ability of this policy to perform to the best of its ability is the government’s reaction time. The government has been sluggish in reacting to the different species when they become endangered. This may in part be due to interference from lobbyists who may not always be acting in the best interest of the species they claim to be lobbying for.

The Endangered Species Act was signed by President Richard Nixon and approved by the 93rd Congress on December 28, 1973. The overall purpose of the act is for the federal government to protect and recover species that are in jeopardy and the ecosystems upon which they depend on to survive and reproduce successfully. Protecting the 2,245 species that are either endangered or threatened and preventing future possible species from becoming endangered are the two main goals of the Endangered Species Act. Equally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Commerce Department’s National Marine Fisheries Service administrate and enforce the Act so that the

After completing my major of Environmental Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, I would like to attend graduate school and continue to research mammals in the field. Though I am not completely certain, I may seek to become a professor to teach others that share my passion for conservation of the environment and wildlife, or work for an environmental agency. To become an agent of change in this field, I would like to focus my research on studying the effects of climate change on mammals. Accordingly, I want to aid in preserving these species, especially those that are endangered, to further promote biodiversity conservation.

Maryann Mott states “critics argue that recovery of only 15 animals...indicates failure”. These critics fail to realize is that the number of recovered species is “not a good measure of the acts effectiveness” (Mott 1). Statistics like this “tell only part of the story”(Jacobson 1). The best way to know if the act works is the “population increase over time” (“Groups cite successes of Endangered Species Act” 1). Many of the species on the list have not been taken off but they still show “significant progress” (“Groups cite successes of Endangered Species Act” 1) in population growth.

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.

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