Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is designed to prevent this consequence of habitat destruction and reckless overdevelopment.
What is extinction?
This autistic teenager spoke to the UN and reminded us that the future depends on what we do to stop climate change. She was later featured in TIME magazine for her environmental advocacy.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoises, died at approximately 100 years old. His species used to inhabit these islands.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
This is a collection of plastic and other debris in the North Pacific Ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
The marine biologist who wrote A Silent World.
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
This patriotic animal was saved from extinction by a ban on DDT.
What are Bald Eagles?
Three teachers at Sky Valley Education Center sued this chemical company for exposure to unsafe levels of PCB chemicals found in the fluorescent lights.
What is Monsanto?
This was the name of the last known Rabbe's Fringe-limbed Tree Frog.
Who was Toughie?
2020 set the record for more hurricanes than any other recorded year. There were this many named hurricanes.
How many is 30?
This author and artist wrote Bird and Moon, a comic that teaches about wildlife.
Who is Rosemary Mosco?
This keystone species was hunted and poisoned as a pest and had massive population drops from the bubonic plague, but breeding and prairie protection kept these burrowers alive.
What are Prairie Dogs?
Rachel Carson fought for a ban on dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, usually called this.
What is DDT?
There are this many White Rhinos left in the world and they're related and all female.
What is 2?
Scientists predict that by this year there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
When is 2050?
He was was an author, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist and environmentalist from Wisconsin. He wrote A Sand County Almanac in 1949.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
This was the year the Endangered Species Act was passed.
When was 1973?
In 1857 The Ohio State Legislature dismissed a petition to protect this species, stating it "needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them."
The same species was extinct by 1914.
What are Passenger Pigeons?
There are only 125 of these New Zealand parrots left in the world.
What is a Kakapo parrot?
This act was passed in 1974 to make sure tap water was drinkable. There were some amendments that were made in 1996.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
This kid's book was written after the author learned about massive pollution problems in Lake Erie.
What is The Lorax?
___% of species with ESA protection are still alive today. This really works!
What is 99%?
This conservation organization is named after the extinct Xerxes Blue Butterfly.
What is the Xerxes Society?
A type of honeycreeper bird called the Akohekohe is critically endangered and only lives on this Hawaiian island.
What is Maui?
This is the largest living structure in the world. Laws regulating the chemicals found in sunscreen could help stop it from dying.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Probably the most famous ecology book of all time, this was written by Rachel Carson.
What is Silent Spring?