WHY ARE ANIMALS GOING EXTINCT AND ENDANGERED? WHAT IS MAKING THEM DISAPPEAR?

The implementation of endangered species protection policies has focused, recently,on the threats by different land use practices. Another major one is the wide ranging effects of pollution on endangered species and their habitat. The deadly effects of pollution has contributed extremely to the listing of numerous species that are endangered and under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) believed that it would get the public interest and to look at opportunities for protecting species, their habitat, and reducing pollution with pollution control programs. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has responsibilities under the ESA. Nevertheless, EPA has just recently begun a study of how the agency carries out its ESA obligations.. ELI reviewed the practices of two other federal agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and the Office of Surface Mining.

With respect to EPA it illustrates the many different ways in which state pollution control programs can enhance endangered species protection.

There are also hundreds of plants and animals in the world that are known to man kind but do you know which are endangered, or almost extinct? Some endangered species include the Orangutan (5000 are left), Komodo Dragon (few hundred), Mountain Gorilla (400), Blue Whale (2000), Great Indian Rhinoceros (500), Giant Pandas (1000), Californian Condor (only alive in zoos), Kakpo - large bird (less then 100), Monkey Eating Eagle (40), Prairie Sphinx Moth (one colony), Rabbit Bandicoot (few colonies), Leseur's Rat Kangaroo, the Western Hare Wallaby and Branded Hare Wallaby (exist only on two small islands in WA) and the Western Swamp Tortoise (15 - 20). Plants and animals become endangered for many different reasons like hunting/poaching and habitat distruction.

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