what is being done to help save the Komodo Dragon from becoming endangered or reaching extinction?
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Komodo Island, where the majority of them live is now a national park. Poaching them is illegal and they are protected by CITES regulations. (CITES stands for The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora. CITES is a 1973 agreement signed by many countries.)
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Danged interesting.  I will look into this.  I have said myself that the future belongs to the best breeders of any species.  Why are the pandas and white tigers endangered and the racoon and rat thriving? Adaptability and reproduction.  It's like WHO do you think are going to inherit the earth? The little WASP couple in the gated community with one or two perfect little lily white children or the Mexican couple with eight kids who will live anywhere and do anything to survive?  Whose kids are going to be the most capable of adapting and thriving? The robust little peasants or the little hot house plants?
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NOW IT IS ENDANGERED GAME.\n\nSOON.. CHANCES ARE THERE TO BE TREATED AS YOU SAID
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Answer provided by www.qtsaver.com\namur leopards is on a current endangered list because there are fewer than 50 leopards left in the wild.
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The American crocodile is endangered because few were left after the initial hunting spree before they were protected.\n\nTheir range became limited by human development in their original range and human interference with their habitat areas (e.g. removal of brackish mangrove swamp).  It is suspected that certain kinds of pollution interferes with their ability to reproduce.
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The Harpy Eagle is threatened by logging and hunting throughout its range, making reproduction and hunting increasingly difficult.\n\nCheck out this link ;\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy_eagle
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I would call your local health department and alert them. If you pick up the birds use gloves and place them in some type of receptacle so they can be transported. I think in this day and age it would be helpful for you and the public.
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There is 1 baby female living at Sea World San Diego, but I don't know if she's visible to the public. This little 7 footer currently has the record for surviving in captivity - 54 days as of 11/7/2006.\n\nGreat Whites don't survive after they're captured, and scientists are trying to figure out why. The previous record was 16 days back in August 1981.\n\nFor some reason, after about 10 days sharks stop eating, start swimming erratically, bumping off of walls, and eventually sink to the bottom of the holding tank, where they drown. If a shark doesn't keep water over its gills, it doesn't get any oxygen and dies.\n\nLots of things have proven to be involved - great whites can detect as little as 0.01 volts of electricity in the water. This transient voltage interferes with their guidance or feeding instincts and they batter themselves against the cage trying to get to the source of the signal. \n\nThe facility in San Diego has no electronics of any kind directly mounted on or near the tank. The tank is also significantly bigger than previous efforts: 1,000,000+ gallons. The researchers also took several days to acclimate the young shark in a fenced off area of the ocean, gradually reducing the size until it was the same size as its million gallon intended home.\n\nDespite years of research, very little is actually known about Great Whites. How deep they can go? What are their reproductive habits? How often do they give birth? Why are their movement patterns over a lifetime? All of these questions are still mysteries.\n\nGive it a few years. Once we get answers to some of the basic questions, we might be able to keep them in captivity. Hopefully we'll be able to not only learn from them, but protect them so our children and grandchildren can enjoy them, too.\n\nHope that answers your question,\nOdd
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to keep species of plants and animals from going extinct and to educatethe public
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let me try:\n1)Save Plants to save Life.\n2)Protect plants and animals and protect yourself.
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Protect and respect their habitats.  Help wildlife by building a bird feeder, composting, eliminating the use of pesticides and herbicides, etc.  In your garden use plants native to your area - do not introduce plants that are not native - they may disrupt the natural balance. \n\nPossibly one of the best things we can do is stop demanding so much of the world's resources, which, in one way or another, destroys wildlife habitat - increases global warming, destroys the rain forest, etc.  Use cloth reusable shopping bags to carry home groceries.  Buy at bulk food stores using much less packaging materials.  Recycle as much of what we use as possible - glass, soda cans, food cans, plastic containers, newsprint, etc.  Recycle toys, books, games, clothes, etc. by donating them to goodwill or Salvation Army, and shop for things you need at those stores.  Live a simpler, gentler life style.  \n\nHere are a few sites you may like to view.
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a short account of environmental happenings that are endangering the blue and some possible solutions\n\nthese are some Mega threats that endanger the planet \n\nExstinction,over population,deforrestation,\nexcess carbon emissions,desertification(land...\nbad farming practises(landloss),\nerosian(landloss),watershortag...\nglobal warming,rising seas(landloss).\n\nEXSTINCTION\n\nwe harvest fish faster than they can reproduce,\nAnd habitat destruction,climatic change,\nexpanding populations,overexploitation,\ndeforrestation,desertification...\npolution are responsible for mayor looses \nof both flora and fauna,many for ever.\nwe are now witness to the first mass extinction\nsince the day of the dinosaurs.\nspecies are being lost every hour.\n\nOVERPOPULATION\nthe world population has doubled in the last 50 years \nthe fastest increase ever,since we became homosapian\n\neach year farmers have to grow food \nfor an extra 70 million people,\nmany of whom are taking the forrests place.\n\nDEFORRESTATION \nif it continues ,is that we could end up looking like Mars.Without an atmosphere ,without water,without air,\nwith out life\n\nthe rain forrest and all other forests are getting smaller every day.\nespecially in south America and Mexico.\nvaluable species of plants become lost \nand countles animals are killed into extinction.\n\nthe jungle of Lacadona one of\nthe richest environmental areas of Mexico\nwhich produces 70 %of the countries water,\nis home to thousands of rare species of flora and fauna\nis loosing hundred of hectares daily\n(2 millions hectares per anum)\ndespite nationwide campains on all tv and radio stations.\nnothing can stop the destruction,\nthe same thing is happening in the Amazon regions ,\nand probably in Asia as well,\nand it is also the case in Borneo\n\nthe forrests make most of the water that we can drink \nor use for agriculture(sweet water) \nsome is condensed from the sea but that reaches only the coastel aereas.\nthe bulk ,comes from the forests ,\nand the rivers come from the rainfall\nwhich comes from the trees.\nthe trees with precipitation,\nfeed the rivers when it is not raining\nand keep them running all year round.\n\nIf we kill all the trees,we kill the rivers .\nwe kill the rain. we kill us.\nthe trees also absorb the heat in the day \nand heat up the place in the night ,\nso they keep the temperature confortable to live in.\ntrees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun \n\nin the dessert the nights are freezing cold \nand during the days you burn up.\n\nCARBON EMISIONS\nthe world is producing more carbon monoxide\nthan the system can accomodate\nthe trees absorb carbon emisions ,\nwhich is poison to us and they leave the oxygen\nwhich we need to breathe.\nin the autemn the colder seas absorb carbon emisions\nthat is produced by rotting flora .\nand in the spring newly growing biomass \nutilises the carbon that is released by the warmer waters\n\nDESERTIFICATION\n\nbecause of bad agricultural practises \nand the resulting land loss \nfarmers are now cultivating highly erodable lands\nand deforresting vast areas\nthe sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.\n\ntwo major desserts in northern china \nare growing together making one giant dessert, \ncausing dust storms making thousands of people refugese.\nthe planet is drying out at an alarming rate.\n\nin the days of the dinasaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth \nand there were no desserts.\nCount how many there are today,and all of them are as a result of mans actions.\nthe sahara used to be forrests\narabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times\nGhengas Kahn burned all the forrests \nand filled the wellS with water and \nso turning vast lands into dessert.\nBAD FARMING\n\nBad agricultural practises is turning \nvast teritories into desserts ,because of \nover grazing ,the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers. \nthe surface aquifiers alrea
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Komodo is an island of Indonesia, one of the places where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild
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hmm can u contact me with details.  I may have people who need it for specimens and other research uses.  They may die  etc etc, so more the better, but on a monthly basis so please be cheap.  My colleagues refuse to buy from pet stores because of the expenses.  \n\nWe dont have a way of keeping them alive for long time our selves so buying from wholesales suppliers is not really good.  This is just a temporary project.  \n\nWe'll probably release them to the wild or somewhere afterwards.
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Hey first off DON'T listen at all to the hippie nonsense garbage about Sharks being "endangered"! That is a load of grade A bull. Shark populations are exploding,we need to hunt them to reduce the OVER population. My opinion is bite then before they bite you. This how you clean them:After you have shot the top of the shark in the head with a explosive tip deer slug; death and paralysis ensues. Cut the tail off to drain the max. amount of blood out of the shark,then hack/saw the head off then slice the belly open and plop out the guts in a top down fashions. then skin and fillet as you would any other fish and enjoy fried,baked,in tacos,stewed! Save the teeth as a souvenir!!
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komodo dragon i think? but then i'd never heard of the other one. although...the person that wrote dinosaur is right to an extent...although they're not really lizards. another although coming up...trying to think...can't...going...out...:) i'm going to answer more of your questions. :)
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Isn't global warming enough?! Because of this ice bergs are melting which mean animals will die. Air is becoming thinner which means we can die.  Global warming IS something to worry about!\n\nwww.stopglobalwarming.org