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SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES
The recent, credible announcement that an international team of scientists is planning to create a baby mammoth through cloning has inspired much speculation about the possibility of using the cloning process to saveendangered species. Unfortunately, cloning is not the answer to the earth’s problem of plummeting biodiversity. Not only will the process probably always be too expensive to create significant numbers of large wild animals, but the animals produced would end up being virtual carbon copies of one another, and therefore lacking in the genetic diversity necessary to sustain a population. As always, the way to conserve endangered species is to stop exploiting them, and to preserve their habitats.
One Third Of All Amphibian Species Are In Danger Of Extinction.
Koalas Struggle To Survive As A Species.
Time Is Running Out For Tigers. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: The Eastern Cougar Is Extinct.
Africa Loses A Wild Rhino A Day.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
STATUS: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES.
POPULATION: FEW THAN 40 INDIVIDUALS LEFT OF THIS LEOPARD SUBSPECIES THAT SHARES ITS FRIGID HABIT WITH THE SIBERIAN TIGER.
TRENDS: DECREASING DUE TO HABITAT LOSS AND ILLEGAL HUNTING. ALSO THREATENED BY A LACK OF GENETIC DIVERSITY DUE TO ITS SMALL POPULATION.
FOUND: KENYA
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Javan Rhinoceros (Rhiniceros sondaica)
Status: Critically Endangered Species
Population: Only 60 left
Trends: Populations of African and Indian subspecies appeared stable, perhaps even increasing slightly, until recently. But an upsurge in poaching in recent years has placed all species in renewed jeopardy.
Found: Uganda
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Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Status : Endangered
Population : Possibly 100,000 individuals
Trends : Central Africa, the home of western lowland gorillas, has been dramatically affected by Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Some scientists estimate that Ebola has killed about one-third of the wild gorilla population here, mainly western lowland gorillas. Evidence suggests that the virus may still be moving through the Congo Basin, placing a large gorilla population at risk.
Found : Uganda
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THE NORTHERN SPORTIVE LEMUR (Lepilemur septentrionalis)
Status : Critically Endangered
Population : fewer than 100 individuals remain.
Trends : Virtually all of them are declining dramatically in population, mostly because of habitat loss due to logging in the forests where they live—but also because of illegal hunting. Many lemur species are listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Found : Kenya
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Northern Right Whale (Eubalena glacialis)
Status : Critically Endangered
Population : around 350 individuals left
Trends : Although the right whale is now protected, its small remnant population continues to suffer losses due to entanglements in commercial fishing gear.
Found : Sri Lanka
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THE LITTLE DODO BIRD (Raphus cucullatus)
Status : Critically Endangered
Population : 100 individuals left
Trends : They are disappearing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss and illegal hunting.
Found : Uganda
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The Leatherback Sea Turtle (Demochelys coriacea)
Status : Endangered
Population : Between 34,000 and 36,000 individuals left.
Trends : The leatherback’s problems include theft of its eggs by humans, illegal hunting and nesting-habitat loss due to beach development, and the erosion of beaches due to global climate change. In addition, leatherbacks sometimes die after ingesting plastic debris they find floating in the ocean, which they mistake for food such as jellyfish.
Found : Sri Lanka
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The Giant salamander (Andrias davidianas)
Status : Critically Endangered
Population : 100 individuals left.
Trends : Decreasing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss and logging of trees in forests.
Found : Uganda
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)
Status : Most critically endangered species
Population : 35 individuals left.
Trends : The ivory-billed woodpecker owes its near- or complete extinction to habitat loss (logging) as well as over-exploitation by humans, who hunted it for its feathers.
Found : Kenya
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Status : Critically Endangered
Population : 100 individuals left
Trends : Illegal hunting and trapping are the main factors pushing the Saola toward extinction. Southeast Asian forests have experienced a huge upsurge in poaching over the last few years. The Asian unicorn is also threatened by deforestation. Found : Sri Lanka
The Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)
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