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    Poaching Millions of animals die illegally every year, because of us. This is called poaching. It is 100% illegal to kill protected animals. The definition of poaching is “ When an animal is killed illegally. It usually occurs when an animal possesses an item that we want.” Over 1,000 species die off every year, because of us. We are wiping out species over 1,000 faster than nature can create new ones. There are over 1,000,000 species worldwide. If we keep up the rate of killing over 1,000 species

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    Florida is a very beautiful state with very beautiful sights and animals. Unfortunately, some of these animals that people love to look at aren’t even supposed to live in Florida. In this paper, we will learn about how Florida has creatures in their land and sea that shouldn’t be there because they were “dropped off” or “set free” from people who owned them just for how the animal looks. One of the animals we will learn about will be the green iguana who was liked and bought just for his color and

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    We should get rid off zoos!!!!! Can you try to think how the animals fell. We should get rid of zoo’s because the animals have way less space as they would in the wild, and the climate is way different in zoos as it would be in the wild. First of all, we should get rid of zoos because the animal have way less space. In the video Should Zoos Exist the author Mikaela Nilsson points out that polar bears have 1 million times less space when in zoos. This shows that zoos

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    Homo Ergaster

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    Homo ergaster dates back to about 1.9 to 0.6 million years ago, and were one of our earliest ancestors to share similar physical characteristics and proportions with modern humans. It is strongly proven that H. ergaster was physically evolved to be efficient long distance runners. This was evident through their diet, behaviour, body proportions, as well as physical adaptations that set them apart them from their predecessors. All of these evolutionary traits occurred in relation to one another in

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    Oophaga Essay

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    Kaycee Rasmussen AmphibiaWeb Species Account Template: Information Fields GENUS: Oophaga SPECIES: sylvatica COMMON NAME: diablito, little devil poison frog CITES (listed in Appendix I, II, III? http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html): ?? IUCN RED LIST STATUS: Near threatened INTERNATIONAL STATUS: None NATIONAL STATUS: None REGIONAL STATUS: None DESCRIPTION: (Enough information to identify an unknown amphibian that you have) DESCRIPTION: The following information is from Funkhouser

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    Florida Panther Species

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    Introduction: This lab report focus on the risk of extinction of the panther species of Florida due to habitat loss (urbanization), collisions road kill, intolerance and poor genetic diversity have been confined to this animal to live in a small part of South Florida become one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. About 160 cats remain in the wild. Therefore the objective of this report is to disseminate knowledge regarding the extinction of native species by identifying the mortality, its

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    Why We Should Ban Zoos

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    "Close your eyes and picture an elephant.Did you see it in a zoo or in the wild." As said in "Should wildlife stay wild." Personally I saw the elephant in the zoo and honestly kids now a days are getting the wrong message when they go to the zoo.Kids just see a lion laying on the ground rather than in its natural habitat. Animals should not be held in captivity due to the fact they suffer physically,mentally,and emotionally.Animals are forced to stay in the same place all day and they never get

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    About 150 million people visit the zoo every year. One time when I went to the Omaha zoo with my family. My favorite part was when my family and I went to the aquarium. And there were squids in tanks and the best part of that was there was a little hallway and if you would look up there were sharks, puffer fish, more squids and even, stingrays. Some people believe that zoos are bad for animals. I disagree because zoos save endangered animals, protects wildlife, has medical care for injured animals

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    climate change and mass extinctions had on Earth’s biodiversity. Many people fail to see that climate change and biodiversity are interconnected. It is climate change that affects the biodiversity of animals and plants. Many plants need wind to aide in their dispersal of seeds. Climate change can destroy many organisms’ homes and even aiding them to disperse into places that were not possible before. Due to climate change, native species are now on the brink of extinction due to introduced species

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    I am going to write against the federal government making the grand canyon national park. They should not put park in the grand canyon because there is wildlife, and other things that are special to the world. The animals will run off and you should not hurt wildlife like that. ''That's a fact jack.'' People around come out to this park and help make the owners richer and run out wildlife. Alright I'm bout to tell you about why there should not be park in Grand Canyon. All the wildlife there is

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