| It is five
o'clock at night and your parents are making you watch
the news. After whining to your parents about the TV
show, you sit down on the couch in disgust. After trying
to ignore the news show, you suddenly hear a story. The
newscaster starts talking about how the dolphins are
becoming more endangered and that there are groups of
people working on helping the Dolphin population grow.
These people are trying to clean up the environment so
these animals have a clean place to live. You turn to
your parents and ask,"What is an endangered
specie?"
Hundreds of Species are dying out each year due to many
different causes. Some of these causes are environmental,
human caused, natural selection, and changes over time to
the specie(evolution). Extinction has already taken over
500 species from the United States alone. Plants such as
the beautiful Sexton Mountain mariposa lily, and animals
like the colorful and once-abundant Carolina parakeet are
gone forever and will never be seen by human eyes again.
(http://consci.tnc.org/library/pubs/rptcard/assets.html) As of 1997, over
20,000 species are currently endangered in the United
States. (http://consci.tnc.org/library/pubs/rptcard/life.html) That number is
only increasing and everyone can do something to help
stop some species from going down the endangered species
road.
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