Author ID: 6064 Proposed species: Mountain gorilla Word Count: 880 Proposed action: save What is a mountain gorilla and are they endangered? The mountain gorilla is one of the four types of gorillas. Gorillas are linked back to great apes, which are the closest living thing relative to humans. The mountain gorilla is the largest of all the gorillas and is classified as endangered on the basis of its reduction to its population size. There are only roughly 700 gorillas in the world today and can only be found alive in three countries of Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Endangered Biodiversity of Yasuni Yasuni Yasuni. In the language of the native inhabitants of this remote part of the Ecuadorean amazons, Yasuni means “Sacred Lands”; A pristine paradise of thick rainforests, rivers, lowlands and inland islands unrivaled in beauty, and living things where more than 700,000 hectares of the Yasuni National Park were declared untouchable by the government of Ecuador. Tiny Ecuador located on the Western coasts of South America, ranks third in the world in the amount of amphibians, birds and other species of life. It is recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a Human Patrimony, an inheritance for all of humanity and a place that is unique in the entire planet. Several very ancient tribes still inhabit the area located in the eastern Amazonian basin of Ecuador.
They are scarce because of over hunting and people destroying their habitat. The next Bear, the Andean all branch around the same time between 5 and 8 million years ago. Theory’s say Sun Bears split from Sloth bear first and the Black Bear lineages diverged. These bears are closely related in size and what they eat. The most recent evolution recorded are the Brown Bear and the Polar Bear.
Orinoco River _________ 4. Paraná River _________ 5. rain forests Copyright © McDougal Littell Inc. a. they have made settlement along the Pacific coast of South America difficult b. a 1,500-mile river that flows mainly through Venezuela c. a method used to clear land for farming d. they cover more than two million square miles of South America and contain many species of trees e. grasslands of northern Argentina and Uruguay f. an ancient technique for growing crops on hillside or mountain slopes g. vast plains in Colombia and Venezuela h. a 3,000-mile river that flows through Paraguay and Argentina _________ 6. slash-and-burn _________ 7. terraced farming _________ 8. Andes Mountains C. Writing About
Since there position on the trophic level the Diprotodon had many predators including the Marsupial Lion and a Megalania. Giant Short-faced Kangaroo - (Procoptodon goliah) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Diprotodontia Family: Macropodidae Genus: Procoptodon The Giant Short-faced Kangaroo was the world’s largest kangaroo. It stood 3m tall and weighed approximately 200kg. Fossils found at the Naracoorte caves establish that the genus died out approximately 50,000 years ago. The kangaroo is supposed to have unusual feet somewhat like a horse.
In the year that followed, the skeleton was shipped to the Cabinet of Natural History in Spain, where a scientist named Juan Bautista Bru assembled and illustrated it (Switek 1 ).French anatomist, George Cuvier named this spectacular animal Megatherium americanum after s observing the illustration. He went ahead and appraised the animal as an extinct creature of the small arboreal sloths of South American rainforests (Switek 1 ) Characteristics of the Megatherium Weighing almost as much as an African bull elephant, it is believed that the Megatherium was not only one of the largest mammals, but also the most impressive animals to walk on the earth’s surface. This massive ground sloth was covered in long, heavy dark hair. Despite the fact that it primarily walked on its fours, its footprints reveal that the animal could also walk on its hind legs, thus assuming a bipedal stance like the bear (Switek 1). The bones in its feet were poorly arranged, thus making it impossible for the animal to place its feet flat on the ground.
Since the late 1960s this stretch of land has been sought for the completion of the Pan-American Highway. However, as this paper intends to demonstrate, the completion of the highway would be disastrous for the wildlife and plant life that presently calls the park home. Diversity in a Small Space: The introduction to this paper touches briefly upon the massive amount of avian life found in Los Katios; in this section we shall discuss some other forms of life in the park, and how they interact with the ecology of the park. Some notable forms of life are as follows: * Rufous-cheeked Hummingbird – According to Birdlife International (2011) this is species is classified as Red List with a Threatened status; because these animals occur in so few places, and their current populations have not been quantified. * Violet-capped Hummingbird – According to Birdlife International (2011) this species is classified as Least Concern; these birds are fairly common, with mature individuals in the 10,000 plus range based on their territory.
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To date, about fifty have traveled in groups of six to Chilean Patagonia- the company’s namesake- to spend three weeks digging out fence posts, rolling up wire, and removing nonnative plants from the area. The subject of these efforts has been the Estancia Valle Chacabuco. (Patagonia Environmentalism) Concervaćion Patagonia was founded in 2000 by the now former CEO of Patagonia Kristine Tompkins. The missions of Conservaćion Patagonia is too create national parks in Patagonia that save and restore wildlands and wildlife, inspire care for the natural world, and too generate healthy economic opportunities for local communities. This alliance of is the first of its kind that is dedicated specifically to Patagonia, working together with the national governments of
chlima@agnet.com.br Andrade Gutierrez, Av. Djalma Batista 3637, Manaus, AM, Brazil. glaucia.alves@agnet.com.br Andrade Gutierrez, Av. Djalma Batista 3637, Manaus, AM, Brazil. jose.grajeda@agnet.com.br ABSTRACT Purpose of this paper The purpose of this paper is to present the management challenges of building the 44,000-seat Amazon Arena in Manaus, a city located in the rain forest and reached only by river or air.