Science and the Endangered Species Act

Science and the Endangered Species Act
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1995-10-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309052912

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a far-reaching law that has sparked intense controversies over the use of public lands, the rights of property owners, and economic versus environmental benefits. In this volume a distinguished committee focuses on the science underlying the ESA and offers recommendations for making the act more effective. The committee provides an overview of what scientists know about extinctionâ€"and what this understanding means to implementation of the ESA. Habitatâ€"its destruction, conservation, and fundamental importance to the ESAâ€"is explored in detail. The book analyzes: Concepts of speciesâ€"how the term "species" arose and how it has been interpreted for purposes of the ESA. Conflicts between species when individual species are identified for protection, including several case studies. Assessment of extinction risk and decisions under the ESAâ€"how these decisions can be made more effectively. The book concludes with a look beyond the Endangered Species Act and suggests additional means of biological conservation and ways to reduce conflicts. It will be useful to policymakers, regulators, scientists, natural-resource managers, industry and environmental organizations, and those interested in biological conservation.

All about Endangered Species - Science and Research Study Guide

All about Endangered Species - Science and Research Study Guide
Author: Laura Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976022036

This is a creative research handbook for students ages 8-17 and up who love learning about rare and beautiful animals. FLASH SALE! Normal Price $32.50! This curriculum handbook is designed to help students study each animal using books, videos, internet, encyclopedias and any other parent approved learning tool. This book is ideal for use as a 3rd to 8th grade science workbook. Table of Contents: 4 Sea Turtles 14 Snow Leopards 24 Red Pandas 34 Polar Bears 44 Miami Blue Butterflies 54 Manatees 64 Javan Rhino 74 Artic Foxes 84 Duck Billed Platypus 94 Whale Sharks 104 Honey Bees 114 Coral 124 South China Tiger 134 Axolotls 144 Southern Rockhopper Penguins 154 Golden Lion Tamarin 164 Savanna Elephants 174 Birds of Paradise 184 Okapis 194 Blue Whales 204 Iberian Lynxes 214 Pangolins 224 Western Lowland Gorillas 234 Black Footed Ferrets 244 Giant Pandas 254 Amur Leopards 264 Notes and Drawings For more creative learning materials visit www.FunSchoolingBooks.com The Thinking Tree, LLC

Endangered Species Recovery

Endangered Species Recovery
Author: Tim Clark
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1994-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781610914000

Endangered Species Recovery presents case studies of prominent species recovery programs in an attempt to explore and analyze their successes, failures, and problems, and to begin to find ways of improving the process. It is the first effort to engage social scientists as well as biologists in a wide-ranging analysis and discussion of endangered species conservation, and provides valuable insight into the policy and implementation framework of species recovery programs. The book features a unique integration of case studies with theory, and provides sound, practical ideas for improving endangered species policy implementation.

The Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act
Author: Stanford Environmental Law Society
Publisher: Stanford Environmental Law Soc
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780804738439

This handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act--its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.

Giraffe Extinction

Giraffe Extinction
Author: Tanya Anderson
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541572238

Quietly, without most people noticing, the population of giraffes in the wild has decreased by nearly 40 percent since 1985. Giraffes have disappeared entirely from seven countries where they used to live. Researchers believe fewer than 98,000 exist in the wild—fewer even than endangered African elephants. In 2016, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added giraffes to the organization's Red List of Threatened Species. What is causing their disappearance? Overpopulation of humans in giraffe habitats and illegal poaching. Learn about giraffes' physical characteristics, habitats, and life cycles; examine the dangers they face from humans and climate change; and meet the scientists working to save these gentle giants using technology and conservation efforts.

Don't Let Them Disappear

Don't Let Them Disappear
Author: Chelsea Clinton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2024-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593623967

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted comes a beautiful book about the animals who share our planet--and what we can do to help them survive. Now abridged for tiny animal activists! Did you know that blue whales are the largest animals in the world? Or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal? The world is filled with millions of animal species, and all of them are unique and special. Many are on the path to extinction. In this book, Chelsea Clinton introduces young readers to a selection of endangered animals, sharing what makes them special, and also what threatens them. Taking readers through the course of a day, Don't Let Them Disappear talks about rhinos, tigers, whales, pandas and more, and provides helpful tips on what we all can do to help prevent these animals from disappearing from our world entirely. With warm and engaging art by Gianna Marino, this book is the perfect read for animal-lovers and anyone who cares about our planet. Praise for Don't Let Them Disappear: "A winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world." --Kirkus Reviews "An inviting . . . appeal to care for the planet and its most vulnerable creatures." --Publishers Weekly

Endangered, Extinct and Legendary Animals a Science and Research Handbook

Endangered, Extinct and Legendary Animals a Science and Research Handbook
Author: Lauren Giordano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781089253808

Introductory Price! Regular price $27.50. For the Animal Lover This is a creative research handbook for students ages 8-17 and up who love learning about extinct, endangered, and mysterious animals. This curriculum handbook is designed to help students study each animal using books, videos, internet, encyclopedias, and any other parent-approved learning tool. Students will learn facts, folklore, and engage in creative thinking about each animal. Spelling, art, geography, writing, and more are included as part of the study. This Zoological Studies Science & Research Handbook is perfect for students with Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism and Asperger's. Thinking Tree Learning Levels B2, C1 & C2. Ideal for ages 8-17, even adults! This book uses the Dyslexie font for easier reading for Dyslexic students. Animals Studied Irish Elk Short-Faced Bear Wolly Mammoth Saber-Toothed Tiger Dire Wolf Aurochs Baiji Dolphin Dodo Bird Golden Toad Haast's Eagle Moa Madeiran Butterfly Passenger Pigeon Po'ouli Bird Pyrenean Ibex Tasmanian Tiger Carolina Parakeet Quagga Javan Rhinoceros Round Island Keel-Scaled Boa Saola Spix's Macaw Sumatran Elephant Sumatran Tiger Vaquita Loch Ness Monster Mokele-Mbembe Ogopogo Ropen of Papua New Guinea To learn more about Fun-Schooling with Thinking Tree Books and Learning Levels, visit funschooling.com Secular - No religious content - Appropriate for Charter Schools, Public Funding, State Homeschool Reimbursement and Vouchers.

Saving a Million Species

Saving a Million Species
Author: Lee Hannah
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1610911822

The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique. Saving a Million Species reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The book: examines the initial extinction risk estimates of the original paper, subsequent critiques, and the media and policy impact of this unique study presents evidence of extinctions from climate change from different time frames in the past explores extinctions documented in the contemporary record sets forth new risk estimates for future climate change considers the conservation and policy implications of the estimates. Saving a Million Species offers a clear explanation of the science behind the headline-grabbing estimates for conservationists, researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers. It is a critical resource for helping those working to conserve biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving global stressor of climate change-the most important issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared.

Red Panda

Red Panda
Author: Angela R. Glatston
Publisher: William Andrew
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1437778143

Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda provides a broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds almost entirely on vegetable material and is colored chestnut red, chocolate brown and cream rather than the expected black and white. This book gathers all the information that is available on the red panda both from the field and captivity as well as from cultural aspects, and attempts to answer that most fundamental of questions, "What is a red panda?" Scientists have long focused on the red panda's controversial taxonomy. Is it in fact an Old World procyonid, a very strange bear or simply a panda? All of these hypotheses are addressed in an attempt to classify a unique species and provide an in-depth look at the scientific and conservation-based issues urgently facing the red panda today. Red Panda not only presents an overview of the current state of our knowledge about this intriguing species but it is also intended to bring the red panda out of obscurity and into the spotlight of public attention. - Wide-ranging account of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) covers all the information that is available on this species both in and ex situ - Discusses the status of the species in the wild, examines how human activities impact on their habitat, and develops projections to translate this in terms of overall panda numbers - Reports on status in the wild, looks at conservation issues and considers the future of this unique species - Includes contributions from long-standing red panda experts as well as those specializing in fields involving cutting-edge red panda research.

Conservation Physiology

Conservation Physiology
Author: Christine L. Madliger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0198843615

Conservation physiology is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field that utilizes physiological knowledge and tools to understand and solve conservation challenges. This novel text provides the first consolidated overview of its scope, purpose, and applications, with a focus on wildlife. It outlines the major avenues and advances by which conservation physiology is contributing to the monitoring, management, and restoration of wild animal populations. This book also defines opportunities for further growth in the field and identifies critical areas for future investigation. By using a series of global case studies, contributors illustrate how approaches from the conservation physiology toolbox can tackle a diverse range of conservation issues including the monitoring of environmental stress, predicting the impact of climate change, understanding disease dynamics, improving captive breeding, and reducing human-wildlife conflict. Moreover, by acting as practical road maps across a diversity of sub-disciplines, these case studies serve to increase the accessibility of this discipline to new researchers. The diversity of taxa, biological scales, and ecosystems highlighted illustrate the far-reaching nature of the discipline and allow readers to gain an appreciation for the purpose, value, applicability, and status of the field of conservation physiology. Conservation Physiology is an accessible supplementary textbook suitable for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of conservation science, eco-physiology, evolutionary and comparative physiology, natural resources management, ecosystem health, veterinary medicine, animal physiology, and ecology.