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- Endangered Species Act - National Geographic Kids
Today the Endangered Species Act is actively protecting and conserving over 2,000 species of plants and animals, including animals whose range includes the United States like humpback whales and green sea turtles; native species like black-footed ferrets and Karner blue butterflies; and even foreign species like giant pandas and tigers About
- Animal List - Birmingham Zoo
Birds Common ostrich Helmeted guineafowl Wild turkey Southern screamer Black-necked swan Mute swan Marbled teal African pygmy goose Ruddy duck American flamingo Nicobar pigeon Pied imperial pigeon Victoria crowned pigeon Pheasant pigeon Black-naped fruit-dove Beautiful fruit dove Jambu fruit-dove White-throated ground-dove Tawny frogmouth Lady Ross' turaco Roadrunner Kori bustard Buff-crested
- California Condor
Both are endangered species Condors can soar and glide for hours without beating their wings After rising thousands of feet overhead on air currents, California condors will glide long distances, sometimes at more than 55 miles per hour From the air, they search for dead animals, like deer or cattle
- Association of Zoos and Aquariums - Wikipedia
Approximately 800,000 animals representing 6,000 species are in the care of AZA-accredited facilities, including 1,000 threatened or endangered species [7] The association also facilitates both species survival plans and population management plans, which serve to sustainably manage genetically diverse captive populations of various animal
- Rhino conservation in zoos - Save The Rhino
The purchase of live rhinos from African and Asian rhino range states (i e the countries in which rhinos naturally occur) by zoos can take place under the rules of CITES (the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species) as a live animal sale to an ‘appropriate and acceptable destination’ and any nationally applicable laws
- The World´s oldest zoo – Vienna Zoo
Along with the historic complexes of the former "menagerie" of Emperor Francis Stephen of Lorraine, visitors discover what is perhaps the world's most beautiful zoo in a unique setting where culture and nature blend More than 700 animal species, some of them threatened, have found a home here and a chance for survival as a species
- Endangered Species Act | U. S. Fish Wildlife Service
The Endangered Species Act establishes protections for fish, wildlife, and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered; provides for adding species to and removing them from the list of threatened and endangered species, and for preparing and implementing plans for their recovery; provides for interagency cooperation to avoid take of
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