ENDANGERED
SPECIES OF THE
WORLD
Speaking-PBD2
3 Amanah
Group 1
-Amylia -Daud –Dhanusha –Ely -Khidir
This slide will include:
• Introduction-”What is an
endangered species?”
• Endangered Species of the
Endangered World
Species of the • Conclusion- “Conservation
Efforts and The Future”
World
Introduction:
They can be at risk due Today, humans are the main cause of species
An endangered species is to a varying amount of being endangered.
a species that is very factors, of which • Habitat loss from deforestation
likely to includes: • Poaching by humans to be sold in the
become extinct in the black market.
near future, either • Habitat loss • Invasive species introduced intentionally
• Poaching or not by humans.
worldwide or in a • Invasive species
particular place. • Climate change brought by our
• Climate change industrilization
ENDANGERED SPECIES OF
THE WORLD
Before the late 19th
The American century, The However by the end of the 1800, the
chestnut (Cast American chestnut newly introduced Japanese chestnut
anea dentata) was a dominant in trees infected the American chestnuts
is a large, fast- the ecosystem of with the chestnut blight causing a Now, the
growing tree the eastern catastrophic population collapse to American
deciduous forest. It this day. Estimates range the loss is
native to eastern
was said that a between 3 to 4 billion American chestnut is
North America. critically
squirrel could walk Chestnuts. As comparison, there are
It produces
burred fruit from New England about 8 billion humans alive today. A endangered
to Georgia solely chest blight that affect humans could
with edible kill 1 out of 2 people or half of all
on the branches of
nuts. American the human population.
chestnuts.
The clownfish are a species of tropical fish
endemic to the warmer waters of the Indian
Ocean, including the Red Sea, and Pacific Ocean,
the Great Barrier Reef, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Clownfishes are also
the Indo-Malaysian region.
threatened by global
warming. The rising
Clownfishes are endangered through poaching. temperature of the
They have become a popular fish in the global ocean would make it
marine ornamental trade following its depiction unsuitable for them to
in recent media.
live in.
The Mississippi gopher frog is
a critically endangered species
of frog endemic to the
southern United States.
The Mississippi gopher frog’s
natural habitats are temperate
coastal forests and intermittent
freshwater marshes.
The Mississippi gopher frog is
endangered by habitat loss and
diseases made worse by the
population’s inbreeding.
As of 2023, barely over 100 of
the Mississippi gopher frogs are
left.
Crotch's bumblebee is a species
of bumblebee that lives primarily in
California,USA but can uncommonly be seen
in Baja California, Mexico and into Nevada.
Crotch's bumblebee inhabits grassland and
scrub areas, requiring a hotter and drier
environment than other bumblebee species,
and can only tolerate a very narrow range of
climatic conditions.
Due to their fragile nature, the effects of climate
change has brought down the population of
Crotch’s bumblebee. Furthermore, pesticides and
human development too contribute to their
downfall as a species.
The Komodo dragon is a As a result of lost of
species of monitor lizard habitat, lost of prey
endemic to the Indonesian and poaching, their
islands population size are
of Komodo, Rinca, Flores,
decreasing. On top of
and Gili Motang.
that, climate change
will affect their habitat
through aridification,
They are the apex causing their habitat to
predator of their be arid and dry, and
territory, dominating sea level rise, sinking
their ecosystem. their islands into the
ocean.
Conclusion
Conservation efforts:
Scientist are creating more resilient American chestnut that Crotch’s bumblebee is a protected
can withstand the blight.
species.
a conservation team has been deployed in order to manage
the recovery of the Mississippi gopher frog by managing the
National parks and reserves are opened
habitat, supplementing habitat with sufficient water, raising to aid the conservation of the Komodo
tadpoles for release, constructing or restoring new breeding
sites, and managing ecological requirements and diseases.
dragon. Sales of it’s skin is prohibited
Conclusion
Through extensive conservation efforts, much of the species talked about today will still be
apart of us into the future. Without these efforts, these organisms would join the long list of
martyr for human greed. There are still much more species alive today that have a bleaker
future and as a joint occupant of earth, we shouldn’t ignore their dire state. In the future, we
should aspire to not let much more of earth’s organisms go extinct.
On the other hand, much of the species that we try to conserve will wound up only able to live in
sanctuaries and reserves. Pollution, warming temperature of the sea and global warming would make
animals like polar bears or dolphins and whales bound ,or cursed, to sanctuaries or reserves as long as it
lives. This problem creates and ethical dilemma between species survivability and organism’s mental
wellbeing. Much of the animals held in captivity suffer from depression and for more intelligent animals
like dolphins, they could suffer from insanity too. Compared to their brethren in the wild, they are more
sad, depressed, aggressive and weak without the vast space of the wild be it the gushing greens or the deep
blue.
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