The National Audubon Society protects all birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. They have been active in this effort for over 100 years and one of the earliest environmental groups in the USA (Gonzalez). They started from a certain water fowl were becoming extinct because of fashion in the late 1800’s. Yes, women’s demand for fancy, feathered hats was reducing the population of certain birds. Their involvement led to legislation that banned the use or possession of these plumes. Since that time they have been involved in reestablishing bald eagle populations as well as the brown pelican, the California condor and many others. However, as of 2016 there are over 400 bird species on the endangered list. These are from all over the world (Grinnell). There is still much …show more content…
The Chief Financial Officer states “We are grateful for the trust our donors place in us, and it is our unwavering pledge to use the financial support they provide wisely, efficiently, and for the best possible conservation results.”
This organization is committed to educating people to value and protect our natural world. Their 41 educational Nature Centers reach over a million visitors a year.
Birds eat insects and that helps to control the bugs that could threaten farmer’s crops and therefore our food supply. Buzzards and vultures work as our highway cleanup crew. And let’s not forget the swallows and geese that eat mosquitos. Barn owls can eat 2,000 mice each year. Birds recycle nutrients back to earth and even pollinate plants.
Birds can educate us on numerous things. By observing birds in flight, aeronautical engineers have designed more efficient airplanes.
By studying all of the interactions birds have with the ecosystem, we can better understand how these relationships can affect humans
According to rotten tomatoes this film the birds was Alfred Hitchcock success that turned birds into some of the most terrifying villains in horror history. The Guardian titles this film my favorite Hitchcock: the birds. Well according to the Guardian the film provides no answer and no escape. The film leaves us confused with multiple questions. A common question that a person may have after watching this movie would be, what made the birds want to attack human beings in the first place? Another question would be why would birds even attack
The birds show symbolism in more than one way throughout the text. As the soldiers are travelling from all over the world to fight for their countries in the war, the birds are similarly migrating for the change of seasons. The birds however, will all be returning, and many of the soldiers will never return home again. This is a very powerful message, which helps the reader to understand the loss and sorrow that is experienced through war.
National Parks are the cornerstone of every country because it preserves the rich cultural and natural resources of a nation, such as Yellowstone in the United States of America. Yellowstone National Park is the World’s First National Park which brings millions of attraction each year, it is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combine and have over a thousand species of plants and animal (Yellowstone Media). However, a very important type of species has been missing in Yellowstone National Park for a very long time. Wolves, which got reintroduce back into Yellowstone National Park, should stay there because without them the ecosystem would be out of balance.
The northern spotted owl is medium in size and is a nocturnal raptor that lives in mature and old-growth forests. Spotted owls hunt voles and flying squirrels in the forests and nest high up in big trees with open spaces. Spotted owls mate for life and live 10 to 15 years. ("Northern Spotted Owl.") For many decades the Northern Spotted Owl has been in danger from the Timber industry. Loggers working for the timber companies do not care if every owl is killed or the last Old Growth Tree is finally cut down, as long as they see a profit from it and not something that will damage their bank accounts. ("Northern Spotted Owl.")
In 1782, the bald eagle was elected as the national symbol of the United States of America, yet by the early 1960’s, it was nearly extinct in the Continental United States. A combination of many dangers, with the main danger being the pesticide DDT, the bald eagle was on the verge of extinction. Yet, through conservation measure applied by the United States government the bald eagle cam back from the brink and was taken off of the endangered species list in 2007.
However, the population of the California condors decreased tremendously during the late 1970s, with only 22 reported alive worldwide in the year 1982-1983 and only nine in the wild by 1985. It was the lowest recorded number of this creature (Church, 2006). And the habitats also shrunk from several locations to only California area. The Condor was then added to the endangered species list of the United States. Moreover, Condor comes under the category of critically endangered (CR) species which is the most severe category under conservation status subjected to species at the highest risk of extinction. Since then various organizations and societies are working on conserving this creature and bringing it back to wildlife.(USFWS, N.D.)
Groups like Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl Foundation keep up the population by buying wetlands from farmers or making there own wetlands from places that they buy. They also raise money to help keep ducks around in many ways. If it was not for these two groups ducks could have possibly been extinct. People will also donate millions to these groups because they know that their money that they put into duck conservation will go directly to support waterfowl hunting.
On June 28, 2007 the Department of Interior took the American bald eagle off the Endangered and Threatened. Bald eagles will still be protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act for Take of Eagles. The number of nesting pairs in the lower 48 United States increases 10-fold, from less than 450 in the early 1960’s more than 4,500 adult bald eagle nesting pair in the 1990’s.
Couple reason why you should get involved is “Waterfowl, like all organisms, are intimately linked to the ecosystems in which they evolved. Understanding these relationships and assuring environmental conditions that support each species are crucial to successful waterfowl conservation. This is the fundamental business of Ducks Unlimited” (DU Plan). This is how they go about things and how they need to fix them. Going out there you will learn that different types of ducks living in their own ways.
Birds follow and clean up after herbivores. And so during their turn in the p...
They also point out how hunters do more than any other organization for wildlife and the environment. Our country was created by outdoorsmen who hunted and passed their knowledge of the outdoors to their kids. Hunting has worked its way down from the generation and we should learn to “pass it on”. Hunting is great for the environment and wildlife and should be preserved for the ages to come. Hunters are the biggest supporters of conservation financially.
represent in real life. Birds are a part of a class of animals that have the ability to roam
Any species which fall into the categories vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered are considered to be at risk of extinction. Robert Redford said “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security defense of our resource’s because it’s just as important as defense abroad otherwise what is there to defend?” People should all take the environment more seriously and protect the future for those to come. It’s our responsibility to ensure that the children to come may enjoy all of earth’s beauty, and not through old issues of National Geographic’s.
In the world today there are about five thousand endangered species. Around one specie dies out every year. Some animals become endangered because people are killing them for their horns, as in the case of the Black Rhino of Africa. Others become extinct because pesticides are put on the food we eat, causing the animals that eat the insects off the plant to become contaminated, which causes their predators to become contaminated, which often affects the shell of that organism?s egg. Here is a list of the endangered species, 91 endangered birds, 76 endangered mammals, 36 endangered reptiles, 21 endangered amphibians, 115 endangered fish, 70 endangered clams, 35 endangered snails, 44 endangered insects, 12 endangered arachnids, 21 endangered crustaceans, 594 endangered flowering plants.
In our world today we have approximately 26,021 endangered species. Endangered species are organisms that may possible become extinct. The term 'endangered species' refers to all species that fits this description. However some conservation biologists and scientists normally use the term ‘endangered species’ to refer to species that are put on the IUCN(International Union for Conservation of Nature)Red List. Many factors can be looked at when considering the conservation status of a species. Factors such as human threats or environmental threats can cause a species to become endangered.