International Union for Conservation of Nature

with a gun pointing at your head laughing as you lay dying. The general point is that almost all animals are getting to the brink of extinction or are either being tagged as an endangered species by the IUCN Red List. The IUCN “International Union for Conservation of Nature” Red List is a list of millions of species and subspecies from all over the world that are currently losing its population due to poaching. This is a powerful tool that helps push the government to

and the wild life that resides on the land. According to the unep-wcmc.org web site that the Park is said to occupy “most of the eastern end of Bamingui-Bangoran province in the north of the country, and its boundary on the north is the international border

For these reasons i support environmental groups in the amazon rainforest. One of these organizations is The Amazon Conservation Association. They are non profit and are working in Peru and Bolivia. The staff are very good ecologists and conservationists. They support locals while protecting land and studying biodiversity and ecosystems. Another group is Greenpeace International who is campaigning to stop

Deforestation affects the Wild Birds         China, as a developing country, is now suffering from serious deforestation. While researching, it shows that North China, is one of the places that have been destroyed a lot in the recent decade. From my perspective, it is critical to raise the awareness of the general public in China as our environment is rather more fragile than before. Deforestation in North China has been a serious threat to native wild birds.        China is a country with low forest

The central idea of "Endangered Species: The African Elephant" by Gale from Cengage Learning. The central Idea of this passage is elephants are endangered. One reason why elephants are endangered are poachers. The poachers hunt the elephants for their tusks which are ivory, tusks are of great value because they are used in a lot of things such as jewelry or piano keys etc. and there is a large demand for these things so the price for them is high. An example from the text, "This substance has been

open the possibility of future development and is vague as to who may develop it. Declaring the island a wildlife refuge or national park would protect not only the pygmy sloths, but also the other unique species found on the island. A similar conservation legislation has been successfully enacted in the past by the government of Panama to protect vulnerable island ecosystems. For example, Isla Iguana has been given the status of “wildlife refuge,” which protects the island's flora and fauna while

In the 1960s, there was a dramatic increase in the interest in conservation in India, driven especially by non-governmental Indian and US ecologists. The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) helped to set up an Indian branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the late 1960s. Along with the Smithsonian Institute and other US ecologists, the BNHS also helped to organise the 1969 International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) conference held in New Delhi. In the 1970s, the Indian government

this as a harmful move for the black rhino species but what most people fail to realize is that it is in fact an effort to help improve and preserve the conservations of these animals. The amount of money that is raised for these conservations is extremely large. Over $11 million dollars has been raised to help the Namibian economy and conservations in Namibia. In addition, the country

Introduction: Endangered species is a species which is classified of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) to become extinct or in red list species. We can find a lot of endangered species today; it is because their populations were destroyed by human being from many different aspects. For examples, illegal logging in the forest destroyed their habitat, farming, and housing of human. Grand Cayman blue iguana (Cyclura Lewis) is one of the species that people concern about it. The results

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