Hey Scholars,
Only a few more precious weeks as APES... How Does it Feel? This week we are continuing or topic of Biodiversity and specifically on species. For this weeks special task Post a Picture of your Favorite Endangered or Threatened Animal (Organism) and Include the following information:
1. Common name
2. Scientific name (use italics or underline, capitalize the genus name (ex. Ursus maritimus or Ursus maritimus)
3. Status: Endangered, threatened, extinct, etc
4. Estimated population (and population trend…increasing, decreasing, stable, uncertain)
5. Geographic range/habitat
6. Threats (ex. reasons for endangerment)
7. Conservation actions
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Dannielle Nadine Hobbs
ReplyDelete3rd Period
Common Name: Brown Pelican
Scientific Name: Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
Status: Endangered
Estimated Population: 70,940 and increasing
Geographic Range/Habitat: The brown pelican is found along the coast in California and from North Carolina to Texas, Mexico, the West Indies and many Caribbean Islands, and to Guyana and Venezuela in South America. Sand spits and offshore sand bars are typical roosting and daily loafing areas.
Threats: DDT and PCB’s
Conservation Actions: Restorations to nesting population sites and pesticide and environmental pollution control are actions that have been taken by wildlife and fishery departments.
For Picture: http://www.eaglewingtours.com/userimages/Image/Brown_pelican_from_natures_pics-Public_domain.jpg
Source: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/i/b/sab2s.html
Dolphin
ReplyDeleteLagenorhynchus albirostris,
Dolphins are an endangered species it is difficult to count population because they span over a large geographic.
As the seas and oceans warm, dolphins are being seen more frequently in colder waters outside their historic ranges. Due to the rapidly rising oceans temperatures, the dolphin’s primary food sources are seeking deeper cooler waters.
Endangered Species Act protects these dolphins.
Citation: Dolphin - Order: Cetacea - Facts - Defenders of Wildlife." Defenders of Wildlife - Protection of Endangered Species, Imperiled Species, Habitats. Web. 12 May 2010. .
Common Name: African Forest Elephant
ReplyDeleteScientific Name: Loxodonta africana cyclotis
Status: threatened
Estimated population: African elephants once numbered in the millions across Africa, but by the mid-1980s their populations had been devastated by poaching.
Geographic range/habitat: Forest elephants are found in dense forests and are essential for the germination of many rain forest trees.
Threats: 1.slowing the loss of natural habitat
2.strengthening activities against poachers and the illegal ivory trade
3.reducing conflict between human and elephant populations
4.determining the status of elephant populations through improved surveys
5.enhancing the capacity of local wildlife authorities to conserve and manage elephant populations.
Conservation Actions: WWF’s African Elephant Program aims to conserve forest and savanna elephant populations through projects and policies. WWF works with elephant range state governments, local people and non-governmental partners to secure a future for this powerful symbol of nature.
Kelsey Rupp
ReplyDelete3rd Period
1. Common name
Northern White Rhino
2. Scientific name
Ceratotherium simum cottoni
3. Status:
Critically Endangered, Extinct in the Wild
4. Estimated population There are only eight Northern white rhinos remaining, none of them in the wild.
5. Geographic range/habitat
Formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, the remaining rhinos are now found only in a Conservatory in Kenya. Savanna grasslands.
6. Threats The trees they sleep under are being cut down, exposing them to predators; organized poaching
7. Conservation actions
The eight remaining Northern White Rhinos were transferred to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya from Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic. The transfer is aimed at providing the rhinos with the most favorable breeding conditions in an attempt to pull the species back from the verge of extinction.
For picture:
http://www.olpejetaconservancy.org/wildlife_conservation/northern-white-rhinos
Common Name: The black face lion
ReplyDeleteScientific Name: Leontopithecus caissara after the fishermen who live on the island where it was first documented
Status: Critically endangered
Estimated Population: Fewer than 400
Geographic Range/habitat: Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot (Cons. Intl.) and in the Brazilian Atlantic Forests Global 200 Ecoregion
Threats: by the development of tourism, the harvesting of palm hearts, and further deforestation to provide more land for cattle ranching
1. Common name: Bonobo, dwarf chimpanzee, gracile chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee
ReplyDelete2. Scientific name:Pan paniscus
3. Status: Endangered
4. Estimated population: Estimates range from 60,000 to fewer than 5,000 individual
5. Geographic range/habitat: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
6. Threats: because the Bonobo is some human dependent, its at high risk of being hunted to death. or extinction!
7. Conservation actions: Since 1996, the first and second Congo wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have had a major impact on both the Bonobo and human population. Bonobos are in danger of being hunted to extinction. The key to Bonobo conservation efforts is balancing these issues.
1. Common name: Green turtle
ReplyDelete2. Scientific name:Chelonia mydas
3. Status: Threatened
4. Estimated population: Approx. 203,000 nesting females
5. Geographic range/habitat:Indo-Malayan, Indo-Pacific, Palearctic, Nearctic
6. Threats: over harvesting eggs and adults, accidental mortality from net and long line fishing fleets, and in some areas tumors.
7. Conservation actions: WWF is working with the government to get and enforce a regional conservation agreement.
Joeline Kane
ReplyDelete4th
1. common name: Tiger
2. Scientific name: Panthera tigris
3.Status: endangered
4. Estimated Pop: 5,000 to 7,000
5. Geographic Range: China, Southern Asia, and Russia's far east
6. Threats: main threat is humans, we hunt them for for sport, trophies, skins, and sources of traditional medical products.
7. Conservation actions: wildlife conservation program is working to safe their habitats from human development
Name: Ocelot
ReplyDeleteScientific Name: Leopardus pardalis
Status: Endangered
Estimated pop: 2,345
Geographic Range: South and Central America, Mexico, Texas, Trinidad, Caribbean.
Threats: Deforestation and Hiabitat Destruction
Conservation Actions: Wild Life Conservation is working on solutions to the problem
http://www.wildcatconservation.org/Ocelot_(Leopardus_pardalis).html for picture go to the above site.
1. Grevy's Zebra
ReplyDelete2. Equus grevyi
3. Endangered
4. Their population is stabilizing and have slightly over 5000 world wide.
5. Grevy's zebra lives in semi-arid bush/grass mosaics with a preference for tracts of grassland growing on deep sand, hard-pans, sumplands and in areas where fire and elephants have degraded the dominant Acacia/Commiphora woodlands.
6. Poaching (though not a threat anymore), loss of habitat due to domestic livestock, competition, and reduced access to water
7. Poaching laws were put into effect.
http://www.animalinfo.org/species/artiperi/equugrev.htm#Population
Shannon Cole
Third Period
For the picture: http://media.photobucket.com/image/green%20sea%20turtle/2UZTY/green-sea-turtle.jpg?o=1
ReplyDelete1. Common name: Green Sea turtle
2. Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
3. Status: Threatened
4. Estimated population: about 203,000 (nesting females)
5. Geographic range/habitat:Indo-Malayan, Indo-Pacific, Palearctic, Nearctic
6. Threats: over harvesting eggs and adults, accidental mortality from net and long line fishing fleets, and in some areas tumors.
7. Conservation actions: WWF is working with the government to get and enforce a regional conservation agreement. There are penalties for hunting or causing the death of sea turtles through carelessness.
Austin Wood
ReplyDeleteNarwhal
Monodon monoceros
population 40000-50000
threatened (stable population)
Narwhals are mostly found in the Atlantic and Russian waters of the Arctic. They have been known to travel around Greenland to eastern Russia.
Narwhals are mostly hunted by polar bears and orcas. They are also hunted by native Inuit people who are allowed to hunt this whale legally
The Canadian government instituted Narwhal Protection Regulations under the Fisheries Act in 1971. This made hunting narwhals illegal for anyone other than the Inuits. There is a catch limit of 5 narwhals a year per subsistence hunter and hunters are required to utilize every part of the narwhal.
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/narwhal.php
Picture is on the website
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/pangolin.aspx
ReplyDelete1. Common pangolin, giant pangolin, tree pangolin
2. (Manis temminckii),(Manis gigantea), (Manis tricuspis)
3. Status: Endangered
4. Estimated population: 25,000-50,000
5. Geographic: Pangolins live in African forests and savannahs where termites are abundant and water is available, along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. They are not found at high altitudes.
6. Threats: over consumption of its meat and the use of its scales for jewelry and medicinal purposes.
7. protected under national legislation in all Asian range states, and have been prohibited from international trade through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) since 2002, this legislation is having little impact on the illicit trade.
1. Common name
ReplyDeletePiping Plover
2. Scientific name
Charadrius melodus
3. Status
Endangered
4. Estimated population
In 2008, 126 Poping Plover were found in Michigan.
5. Geographic population
Poping Plover nests in the Great Plains states, on the shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior, and along the Atlantic coast
6. Threats
Human disturbance,Foot and vehicle traffic may
crush nests or chicks,Pets, especially dogs
and cats, may harass or kill the birds,Storm tides may destroy nests.
7. Conservation Acts
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project
1. Common name
ReplyDeleteGiant Panda
2. Scientific name (use italics or underline, capitalize the genus name (ex. Ursus maritimus or Ursus maritimus)
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
3. Status: Endangered, threatened, extinct, etc
Endangered
4. Estimated population (and population trend…increasing, decreasing, stable, uncertain)
Less than 2500 and slowly increasing in population
5. Geographic range/habitat
Forest/mountain areas of Southwest China
6. Threats (ex. reasons for endangerment)
Loss of Habitat and poaching
7. Conservation action
The WWF is working with China on preserving the Panda's habitat. Also, the Giant Panda has moved to a new list in which trade or any product from Panda is restricted.
Common Name: Giant panda
ReplyDeleteScientific Name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Location: Southwest China (Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan Provinces) to the east of the Tibetan plateau.
Population: Less than 2,500 mature in the wild
Threats: Poachers and the increased development of China's economy is resulting in habitat loss
Conservation Actions: China has created over 50 panda reserves and organizations such as the WWF are working together to preserve the panda's habitats. New laws have also been placed on the pandas restricting trade on products created from pandas.
1.Green Sea Turtle
ReplyDelete2.Chelonia mydas
3.Endangered
4.at least less than 1,000
5.Green turtles move across three habitat types depending on their life stage. They lay eggs on beaches. Mature turtles spend most of their time in shallow, coastal waters with lush seagrass beds. Adults frequent inshore bays, lagoons and shoals with lush seagrass meadows. Entire generations often migrate between one pair of feeding and nesting areas
6.Humans, poaching
7. In 2001, Nicholas Mrosovsky filed a delisting petition, claiming that some green turtle populations were large, stable and in some cases, increasing. At the time, the species was listed under the strict EN A1abd criteria. The IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee ruled that visual counts of nesting females could not be considered "direct observation" and thus downgraded the species' status to EN A1bd—retaining the turtle's endangered status.
Michelle Pumphrey
1. Common name
ReplyDelete-Leopard
2. Scientific name
-Panthera pardus
3. Status
-endangered
4. Estimated population
-500,000 worldwide
5. Geographic range/habitat
-listed endangered Africa, Asia, Middle East
6. Threats
-hunted for fur
-killed b/c seen as a nuisance
7. Conservation actions
1. Common name: Jaguar
ReplyDelete2. Scientific name (use italics or underline, capitalize the genus name (ex. Ursus maritimus or Ursus maritimus): Panthera onca
3. Status: Endangered, threatened, extinct, etc: endangered
4. Estimated population (and population trend…increasing, decreasing, stable, uncertain: Unknown
5. Geographic range/habitat: Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Also from Mexico to Patagonia
6. Threats (ex. reasons for endangerment: Human population growth and agricultural expansion, as well as hunting and poaching by livestock ranchers.
7. Conservation actions: can adopt, money you give helps provide environment for them
1. Common name: Giant Panda
ReplyDelete2. Scientific name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca
3. Status: Endangered
4. Estimated population: 2004: 1600 giant pandas (results of a 4-year-long study of giant pandas by the State Forestry Administration of China and WWF)
5. Geographic range/habitat: live in both the Mountains of Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot (Cons. Intl.) and the Central China Temperate Forests Global 200 Ecoregion.
6. Threats (ex. reasons for endangerment): the loss and degradation of its habitat. The giant panda's range is steadily shrinking as logging operations - many of them illegal - fell trees, and peasants clear land for farming or cut down vegetation for fuel (Litchfield 1992). Already panda populations are small and isolated, confined to high ridges and hemmed in by cultivation.
7. Conservation actions: A logging ban declared at the end of 1998 has put most panda habitat off-limits to commercial logging. Alternative forest uses that would be more ecologically friendly, such as commercial mushroom farming and ecotourism, are being evaluated
Ryukyu Tip-nosed frog
ReplyDeleteOdorrana Narina
endangered
can't find population
Lives on mainland okinawa
cutting down foreests for roads and dams, and tourism
a captive-breeding project to bring a human-raised Oriental Stork back to the wild.
1. Common name:
ReplyDeletesnow leopard
2. Scientific name (use italics or underline, capitalize the genus name (ex. Ursus maritimus or Ursus maritimus)
Uncia uncia
3. Status: Endangered, threatened, extinct, etc
Endangered
4. Estimated population (and population trend…increasing, decreasing, stable, uncertain)
no more than 2500 snow leopards and the fact that it has no subpopulation numbering more than 250 mature leopards.
5. Geographic range/habitat
eastern asia
6. Threats (ex. reasons for endangerment)
poaching, Killing of snow leopards in retribution for livestock depredation
7. Conservation actions
Community-based conservation: Snow Leopard Enterprises
This major Snow Leopard Trust program
IMAGE: www.saczoo.com/view.image?Id=467
Common name: Tiger Salamander
ReplyDeleteScientific name: Ambystoma tigrinum
Status: Endangered
Threats: Humans, roadways, long time to reach sexual maturity
Conservation actions: Build tunnels under the road ways
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7143.html
1. Green Sea Turtle
ReplyDelete2. Chelonia mydas
3. Status: Threatened
4. Estimated population: Approx. 203,000 nesting females
5. Geographic range/habitat:Indo-Malayan, Indo-Pacific, Palearctic, Nearctic
6. Threats: over harvesting eggs and adults, accidental mortality from net and long line fishing fleets, and in some areas tumors.
7. Conservation actions: WWF is working with the government to get and enforce a regional conservation agreement.
http://www.wildnet.org/images/snowleopard_main.jpg
ReplyDeleteSnow Leopard
threatend
3,500 to 7,000
Snow leopards are found at altitudes between 9800 and 17,000 feet in the high, rugged mountains of Central Asia. Their range spans from Afghanistan to Kazakstan and Russia in the north to India and China in the east. China contains about 60% of snow leopard habitat. They have already disappeared from certain parts of Mongolia, which is part of their historic range.
Due to the high demand for their coats, snow leopards are also illegally hunted for the fur trade. The pelts are a sought-after commodity in places like Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia where they are turned into coats and other garments. Snow leopard bones and body parts are also used for traditional Asian medicine. As humans expand their farm and grazing areas for livestock herds they are encroaching more into the snow leopards territories resulting in increased conflict with humans when snow leopards attack livestock during times when their natural prey is scarce.
onservation groups near snow leopard habitats are working with local farmers and herders to help foster a better understanding of how to co-exist with these animals and minimize conflicts between them.
The farmers are taught how to secure their barns and livestock holding areas against snow leopards and reimbursement programs have been set up to give the farmer fair market value for animals they have lost in return for allowing the snow leopards to live.