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Endangered Species

The document discusses endangered species, which are populations at risk of extinction due to small numbers or threats to their environment or predation. Many nations have laws to protect conservation reliant species by restricting hunting or development. While some species gain legal protection, many become extinct without notice. Factors like population trends, breeding success, threats, and more are used to assess conservation status. Species should be preserved for aesthetic, moral, economic, and scientific reasons.

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Endangered Species

The document discusses endangered species, which are populations at risk of extinction due to small numbers or threats to their environment or predation. Many nations have laws to protect conservation reliant species by restricting hunting or development. While some species gain legal protection, many become extinct without notice. Factors like population trends, breeding success, threats, and more are used to assess conservation status. Species should be preserved for aesthetic, moral, economic, and scientific reasons.

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ENDANGERED SPECIES An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened

by changing environmental or predation parameters. Many nations have laws offering protection to conservation reliant species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves. Only a few of the many species at risk of extinction actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection. Many more species become extinct, or potentially will become extinct, without gaining public notice. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that endangered species not living. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species; not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on. Species should be saved for aesthetic and moral justifications; the importance of wild species as providers of products and services essential to human welfare; the value of particular species as indicators of environmental health or as keystone species crucial to the functioning of ecosystems; and the scientific breakthroughs that have come from the study of wild organisms. species serve as a source of art and entertainment, provide products such as medicine for human well-being, indicate the welfare of the overall environment and ecosystem, and provided research that resulted in scientific discoveries. Endangered species could prove useful to human development, maintenance of biodiversity and preservation of ecosystems. It is the goal of conservationists to create and expand upon ways to preserve endangered species and maintain biodiversity. There are several ways in which one can aid in preserving the worlds species who are nearing extinction. One such way is obtaining more information on different groups of species, especially invertebrates, fungi, and marine organisms, where sufficient data is lacking. Another way to help preserve endangered species is to create a new professional society dedicated to ecological ethics. This could help ecologists make ethical decisions in their research and management of biodiversity. Also, creating more awareness on environmental ethics can help encourage species preservation. One final way in which one can conserve endangered species is through federal agency investments and protection enacted by the federal government.

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