Fun Facts
This endangered animal is known for being a carrier of the disease Chlamydia.
What are Koalas?
The variety of life on Earth at all levels
What is biodiversity?
This is a plan put in place by organizations for animals to reproduce without the possibility of inbreeding.
What is a Species Survival Plan?
A species that is in danger of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
This is the illegal killing or trapping of threatened or endangered species.
What is Poaching?
This endangered animal has a diet of mostly sea sponge.
What is a Hawksbill Sea Turtle?
The variety of different species living in a particular area.
What is Species Biodiversity?
This is the way endangered animals are brought together to replenish population numbers in captivity.
What is captive breeding?
A species likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.
What is a threatened species?
This is an international agreement that governments make with each other.
What is a treaty?
This endangered animal is so large that human beings can fit in its circulatory organs.
What is a blue whale?
The variety of genes and genetic traits within a species or population.
What is Genetic Biodiversity?
This is the process of putting DNA into a cultured egg cell.
What is cloning?
The disappearance of a species from a particular geographic location while it sill exists elsewhere.
What is extirpation?
This is a United States National law protecting many species from danger and trading. It also requires US Fish and Wildlife to keep a list documenting populations.
This endangered animal is known as the "man of the forest". We share 90% common DNA with this species.
What is the Orangutan?
The variety of habitats, biological communities, and ecological processes in an area.
What is ecosystem biodiversity?
This is the process by which a species is preserved by protecting the entire ecosystem.
What is the ecosystem approach.
A species naturally found only in one specific geographic location.
What is an endemic species?
This is a notable win for the ESA, the removal of this harmful pesticide has allowed many predatory bird numbers to climb again.
What is DDT?
This endangered animal is one of the largest of its kind and lives in the Amazon River Basin.
What is the Giant Otter?
A region with exceptionally high biodiversity and many endemic species that face significant habitat loss.
What is a biodiversity hotspot?
This a long track of protected area for wildlife to flourish, often reconnecting a fragmented habitat.
What are wildlife corridors?
The breaking up of a large, continuous habitat into smaller, isolated patches.
What is habitat fragmentation?
This International Treaty is signed by 175 countries and forbids the international transport of endangered animal parts.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).