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Scientific Name: Balaenoptera musculus
Native Country: They live in the deepest parts of the water
Cause of Endangerment: Their increase in population
Ways to help: They regulate the flow of food and make a stable food chain and also make sure that certain animal species do NOT over populate the entire ocean.

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Common Name: Blue Whale
Scientific Name: Balaenoptera musculus
Native Country: north Atlantic and north pacific
Cause of Endangerment: The blue whale was driven to the brink ofextinction by commercial whaling in the 1800s and early 1900s. This species was protected from commercial whaling by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 1966.
Ways to Help:

1. Adopt a Whale. A symbolic adoption helps save real animals in the wild.

2. Take Action. Visit our Wildlife Action Center to send a message to government leaders.

3. Speak Up for Wildlife. ...

4. Stay Informed. ...

5. Become a Defender of Wildlife

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Common Name:
Dodo
Scientific Name:
Raphus cucullatus
Native Country:
island of mauritius
Cause of Extinction:
dutch sailors ate it to extinction
Ways to help:
We could have limited the amount that was hunted and eaten.

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Common Name: Vaquita
Scientific Name: Phocoena sinus
Native Country: The Gulf of California and Mexico
Cause of endangerment: They are critically endangered because of the use of gillnets in their habitat. The vaquitas get tangled in the net and can not escape.
Ways to help: To stop fishing with gillnets in areas where the vaquita are.

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common name: Bengal Tiger
scientific name: Panthera tigris tigris
native country: Asia
native habit: dense forests, swamps, and jungles
cause of endangerment: habitat loss and hunting by poachers for furs
ways to help: stop supporting the fur industry, limit human to tiger interaction (baby tiger pictures), make an effort to stop deforestation

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common name: Steller's Sea Cow
scientific name: Hydrodamalis gigas
native area: found around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea
cause of extinction: hunted for its pelt and died out in the 18th century
ways it could've been helped: it could have been left alone rather than hunted for its skin

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Common Name: Penguin
Scientific Name: Spheniscidae
Native Country: Antarctica
Cause of Endangerment: Commercial fisheries and shifts in prey populations
Ways to Help: Make sure seafood is caught and raised properly, prevent oil spills, reduce carbon emissions, and support conservation works.

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Common Name:
Tasmanian Tigers
Scientific Name:
Thylacinus cynocephalus
Native Country:
Tasmania, New Guinea
Causes of Extinction:
-Competition with wild dogs that were introduced by European settlers.
-Erosion of its habitat.
-The concurrent extinction of prey species.
-Distemper-like disease that affected many captive specimens back then.
-Poachers/hunters
Ways to Help(if still live):
-Banish hunting on Tasmanian Tigers
-Extended protection
-Giving them an area that belongs to the Tasmanian Tigers

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Common Name-  Wooly Mammoth
Scientific Name- Mammuthus primigenius
Native Country- Siberia and Alaska
Cause of Extinction-climate change, consequent shrinkage of its habitat, hunting by humans, or a combination of the two.
Ways to help- We could have found other animals to hunt for fur back then

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Common Name:  Western Black Rhino

Scientific Name:  Diceros bicornis longipes

Native Country/Habitat: South Africa/Asia

Causes of Endangerment:  The Western black rhino is becoming endangered because of people in Africa and Asia hunting them because it is believed that the horn is a cancer and hangover cure.

Ways to Help:  I think that having laws on how many rhino people can kill per year/month. And they should make it illegal to kill any until their population rebounds.

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Common Name: Baiji
Scientific Name: Lipotes Vexillifer
Native Country/Habitat: Yangtze River in China.
Causes of Endangerment: A time period of hunting by humans (The Great Leap Forward), the illegal practice of electric fishing, habitat loss, pollution, collisions with boats and ships.
Ways We Could Help: Protect acquatic habitats, decrease pollution, fish safely, create more nature reserves

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Common Name  -  Quagga
Scientific name  - Equus quagga quagga
Native Country  - South Africa
Cause of Endangerment - They were heavily hunted and competed for food with domesticated animals. They were sent to zoos but breeding was unsuccessful.
Ways to Help - The stop of ruthless hunting.

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common name: Passenger pigeon
scientific name: Estopistes migratorius
native area: North America
cause of extinction: In the 19th century, natives in North America hunted the bird for an unknown reason. During the time of the discovery of North America, the bird's meat was a cheap source of food for the colonists and explorers. Deforestation was also another reason for the decline of the rather large population of around 5 billion birds.
ways it could've been helped: One way would have been to choose a small area of trees and such for human use and leave a larger portion for the pigeons. Another way could have been to find another cheap source of food such as rabbit or deer depending on where they were or to switch between birds and other small animals so the animals have a chance to reproduce.

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Common Name -- Poʻouli
Scientific Name -- Melamprosops phaeosoma
Native Country -- Maui, Hawaii
Cause of Endangerment -- Some of the worst problems that these birds face is the threat of avian diseases such as malaria and pox virus. The black rat, a native in the forest, is also a serious problem for the Po’ouli. The destruction of their habitat and reintroduction of other birds also made the Po’ouli survival rate drop considerably.
Ways we can help -- A “rare bird search” for all of the critically endangered forest birds in Hawai’i was initiated in 1994. These searches detected fewer than ten Po’ouli remaining in Hanawi. By 1997, only three Po’ouli could be found. They were thought to be located in three geographically separate home ranges in the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve (Baker 2001, Reynolds and Snetsinger 2001). The three known Po’ouli were all captured and banded in 1997 and 1998 verifying three different individuals in three different areas. Despite many hours in the field searching, no more Po’ouli were found. In 1998, experts around the world were consulted to implement a recovery plan. Many recommended a predator control program be initiated and a grid system was set up to do that.

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Common Name: Great Auk
Scientific Name: Pinguinus impennis
Native Country: Arctic and Sub-Arctic areas
Cause of Extinction: Mid 1800's. Excessive hunting by fishers for food and their feathers. Their feathers were used fro clothes
Ways that could've helped: Established hunting laws/restrictions. Since, these birds were extincted due to extreme hunting, laws again such hunts could've saved this species.

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Common Name: Amur leopard
Scientific Name: Panthera pardus orientalis
Native Country: Far Eastern Russia and Northern China
Cause of Endangerment: Lowest levels of genetic variation of any leopard, habitat destruction from commercial logging and farming, and illegal poaching for fur over the last 40 years
Ways we could help: Stop people from poaching for fur and stop commercial logging because that leads their habitat to destruction.

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Common name: Sea lion

Scientific name:  Zalophus californianus

Native Country: The Sea lion is native to western North America. Its habitat ranges from southeast Alaska to central Mexico.

Cause of Endangerment: They had steep declines in population. They are also threatened by hunters and trash in the ocean.

Ways to help: We could reuse paper or plastic bags to help reduce trash in the water. Throw away fishing lines instead of throwing them in the water, animals mistake them for food and can get tangled in them.

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-Common name : Monarch Butterfly
-Scientific name : Danaus plexippus
-Native Country: North American but can also be found in Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and the Pacific Island.
-Cause of endangerment : Due to an ongoing mystery of colony collapse among bees the Monarch Butterfly can become endangered scientists have also identified threats to the Monarch Butterfly during the fall there is very little nectaring habitat and insecticides
-Ways to help : Do not use Pesticides in your garden, Avoid engineered foods, Plant native milkweed

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-Common name: Polar bear
-Scientific name: Ursus maritimus
-Country/habitat: The arctic
-Cause(s) of endangerment:  Due to global warming their habitat is melting away. Because the ice is melting their hunting method of eating seals when they leave their ice holes becomes harder and harder.
-Ways we could help:

prevent climate change by taking public transportation

not use as much electricity in light, charging, unused devices, etc.

recycle more than throwing things away

don't waste food

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Why are polar bears endangered? Everything you need to know for International Polar Bear Day

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International Polar Bear Day is here, and you may be wondering why polar bears are endangered. Here's information on the main cause, and how you can help.

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The Giant panda also known as the Ailuropoda melanoleuca usually can be found in bamboo forests around mountainous regions of China. One of the main reasons the panda population is endangered is because of habitat destruction,  that can soon lead to food shortages. Ways people are helping out the pandas are by protecting the bamboo which is the pandas major food source. Providing corridors for giant panda migrations, and patrol preserves to prevent poaching and logging.

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Common name: Green Sea Turtle
Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Native habitat: warm areas throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, & Indian Oceans
Cause of endangerment: suffered from over poaching & over-exploitation for their meat, eggs, skin, and shells.
Ways to help: If near a beach, turn off any lights that would be visible to the turtles, reduce the amount of garbage you produce, and always be aware of sea turtle nesting locations. You can also volunteer with your friends or organizations to help clean up beaches and create a safe environment for the turtles.

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Common Name: Tasmanian devil
Scientific Name: Sarcophilus harrisii
Where is it native to? The Tasmanian devil was once native to the mainland of Australia but is now found in the island state of Tasmania and the east- coast of Maria Island.
Causes of endangerment: This animal species is being wiped out due to a rare cancer called devil facial tumor disease.
Ways it is being helped: There is no official vaccination, treatment, or cure for this rare disease. On the contrary, scientists are doing lots of research to prevent the disease in the wild. There is vital fencing being put up to separate the diseased animals from the clean populations.

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Common Name: Giraffe

Scientific Name: Giraffa camelopardalis

Native Country: South Africa

Native Habitat: Savannas and open woodlands

Cause of endangerment: Giraffes suffer from loss of habitat, civil unrest, ecological changes, and poaching.

Ways to help:  You can put effort into stopping poachers from killing giraffes, or you can become a wildlife advocate. Other people are helping giraffes by studying their life habits and their habitats. The research that is going towards giraffes can help them survive.

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-Common name: Penguin
-Scientific name: Spheniscidae
-Native country: Southern Hemisphere, Antarctica
-Native habitat: near nutrient-rich, cold-water currents that provide an abundant supply of food.  They are found in varying climates, depending on the type of penguin,  from tropical islands at the equator to the pack ice and waters of Antarctica.
-Cause(s) of endangerment or extinction: global warming, natural predation,  impacts on habitat due to oil spills, pesticides, construction, destruction of habitat due to introduced herbivores, competition with humans for food and illegal egg harvesting
-Ways the animal is being helped or could have been helped: dispose of plastic properly so it doesn't end up in oceans, eating less meat, buying less stuff, and driving and flying a little as possible, doing anything you can to work against climate change

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1.) Common Name: 3-toed Sloth
2.) Scientific Name: Bradypus
3.) Place of Habitat: The rainforests in South America.
4.) Cause of Endangerment: Humans are cutting down the trees where the 3-toed sloth lives, leaving it with no place to go.
5.) Ways it is Being Helped: EDGE (endangered animals conservation) has been working with Panama to keep people from cutting down the rainforests, so they the environment can rebuild. This will give the sloths a better chance of survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tdokh1KYuQ

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Red Panda

Scientific Name: Ailurus fulgens
Native Country: China
The cause of endangerment: Habit loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.
Ways the red panda could be helped: by preserving their habitats and plant bamboo to reduce  habitat degredation.

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Common Name: hummingbird

Scientific Name: Trochilidae

Country: In the Americas (mostly Southern)

Habitat: Ecuador, Columbia and The Rockies are where they are found

Causes of endangerment: Habitat loss and destruction, window collisions, bad bird feeders,poor weather

Ways it's being helped: have clean bird feeders and keep them away from the windows, donate to organizations that help with planting trees, and grow native flowers because those are what hummingbirds like.