A Symbol of Greatness: The Grizzly Bear
A Symbol of Greatness: The Grizzly Bear Bears and humans have interacted for thousands of years. The Indians used to live among them, and although they would occasionally have some conflict, they lived together peacefully. The Indians respected them, as well as all the other creatures of the fore....

Chinas Ecological Crisis
China is a beautiful country but one that is in ecological peril. Air pollution and the acid rain it causes, along with a loss of biodiversity make this country an ecological hotspot. These two very different problems have some of the same root causes. The United States has faced similar problems. A....

Endangered Species
Endangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, ....

Endangered Species
Would you like having your children live in a world where the great American Bald Eagle no longer soars through our skies? Would you wipe the last existing members of an animal species off the face of this earth just to grade a field for a mall parking lot? Believe it or not, some people and industr....

Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 by congress. This act was one of dozens of environmental laws passed in the 1970s in the United States. Congress passed its first legislation to protect endangered species in 1966 and expanded the laws again in 1969. The 1973 legislation, ....

Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act Evolution has been shaping the planet for millions of years. Natural selection, the driving force behind evolution, eliminates species lacking the genetic variability to survive in the current environment. Extinction is natural; it is the current rate of extinction, re....

Environmental science laws and treaties
APES Summer Assignment 2006: Laws and Treaties 1) Antarctic Treaty A- Antarctic Treaty, it came into force June 23 1961, and was adopted at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Peru, May/June 1999, International. B- The Treaty covers the area south of 60°̊S latitude. Its obj....

Gaia Mother of All
Oh Goddess, Source of Gods and Mortals, All-Fertile, All-Destroying Gaia, Mother of All, Who brings forth the bounteous fruits and flowers, All variety, Maiden who anchors the eternal world in our own, Immortal, Blessed, crowned with every grace, Deep bosomed Earth, sweet plains and fields frag....

Geography Assignment on Ecotourism - Case Study: The Ningaloo Reef
Year Ten: Term Two Geography Assignment Ecotourism i) Ecotourism is a concept more difficult to define than its widespread usage would suggest. Nature-based tourism is a rapidly expanding portion of the worlds travel market. Ecotourism is a type of tourism that has sprung from nature-base....

Horrors of Factory Farming
The Real Price of Meat: The Hidden Lives of Factory Farm Animals Factory farming, in general, is no ones favorite subject, and the details are particularly unpleasant to think about. In our minds, we think of cows, chickens, and pigs living in a pleasant farm where calves nuzzle their mothers o....

Is ecotourism the way forward for countries such as Ecuador?
Environment - international agreements: Party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber ....

National Parks
Welcome to Yellowstone National Park! Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National P....

Reuniting the Grey Wolf
In 1914 the United States Congress approved the funding to destroy wolves. Many of the Government bounty hunters decided to help farmers to protect there livestock from the destructive creatures. Sixty years later the wolves are considered as endangered. In 1973 the United State Congress passed anot....

Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the classification of differing organisms into groups based on a set of defined characteristics that is common to all members of the group. Taxonomists examine animals (and plants), determine what features make that particular animal unique, and then compare related animals to verify tha....

The Bald Eagle as an Endangered Species
The bald eagle is the most well known endangered species because it is the nation's symbol. It is suppose to stand for freedom and the American way, but if we allow the bald eagle to become extinct how can we let something that doesn't exist anymore stand for freedom and the American way. Being the ....

The Cheetah
ABSTRACT Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) have been analyzed for their level of genetic variability over the past few decades. Tests such as skin grafts, protein electrophoresis, DNA sequence analysis, and spermatozoa analysis have demonstrated that the cheetah genus has low genetic variability. Conse....

The Effects of Televsision on the Language Development of Children
THE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION ON THE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN RESEARCH & STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS NOVEMBER 28, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Illustrations-----------------------------------iii Purpose-------------------------------....

The Great Society
The Great Society succeeded in prompting far-reaching social changes. Critics believe that the Great Society resulted in creating an oversized bureaucracy, too many regulations, waste and fraud, and rising budget deficits. However, the Great Society brought about more optimistic social changes than....

Will the efforts of Public Policy reverse the damage humans have inflicted on earth?
Save The Whales Save the Trees Earth daythese are just a few of the Slogans and events that are frequenting our ears more and more today. Why though? Why are we constantly berated with advice to save the world and whos behind it all? Well, to answer the first question, the earth is sending o....

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