What Can We Do About Endangered Animals

This handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act--its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.

Whether you would like to learn how to build a bird box, dig a hedgehog tunnel or implement broader environmental changes in your community, this practical guide to saving our most endangered species will teach you how you can help on an individual, local and national level.

Explains the challenges facing endangered animals, exploring the root causes of this issue, and offering possible solutions.

Animal species are disappearing at an alarming rate. This informative book introduces kids to some of the animals in danger and examines what can be done to preserve Earth’s ecological diversity.

Endangered animals need everyone’s help - regardless of age, gender, race and social status. The first step to protecting endangered animals is to educate the young. The purpose is to make children become aware of what endangered animals are, where they can be found and what can be done to save them. Read this book with your 10-year-old today!

"Discusses endangered animals throughout the world, including coral reef, bees, bats, marine turtles, wolves, sharks, and frogs and what can be done to help save them"--Provided by publisher

Travel the world in a stunning, informative book about animals under threat of extinction. From the giant panda of China to Fiji’s banded iguana, creatures all over the world are imperiled like never before in human history. Visit all inhabited continents via a series of striking graphic stamps by printmaker Tom Frost, depicting more than thirty species — some familiar, some you may not have known existed — all of which are in danger of not existing for much longer. Fact files from conservation biologist Martin Jenkins introduce readers to some of the threatened fauna around the globe. A timely call to arms for animal lovers young and old, this oversize nonfiction book discusses the reasons that so many species are in danger of dying out and what we can do to help them.

The author presents case studies of the Andean Condor, Asian Lion and Elephant, Basking Shark, Brown Bear, Manatee, Giant Panda, Gorilla, Jaguar, Mexican Wolf, Piping Plover, Scarlet Macaw, and other mammals, fish, birds and insects.