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Endangered Animals
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By purchasing WWF PhotoStamps, customers will help WWF to save endangered animals and their habitats. To get the program started, Stamps.com will donate half of the sale price for each sheet of WWF PhotoStamps sold from now through September 30 to the organization.
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Ten endangered animals are highlighted in each book with clear, simple text matched by stunning, full-color photographs by wildlife photographer and author Dave Taylor. Each book helps guide the reader toward a greater understanding of the dangers these magnificent animals face as their habitats are continually degraded and destroyed. Animals include:
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This tiny monkey is one of the most endangered of all animals in South America. The few that are left, about 150, are restricted to the only remaining coastal rainforest, southwest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Forest destruction is the main reason for the tamarin's decline, but it is ... in danger of being captured alive and sold as a pet - a strictly illegal practice which still goes on in secret. Some captive-bred golden lion tamarins have been put back into the wild in a protected area of forest.
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The Clinton administration... has instead recommended a plan that postpones, for up to 10 years, breaching or removing the dams, thus leaving the Snake's endangered salmon on the path to extinction. The administration appears to be bowing to objections raised by the Army Corps of Engineers and key members of the House and Senate. But 10 years from now will be too late to start a successful salmon recovery program.
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Your job is to report about an endangered animal of North America. You will be working as a team with another scientist. You will need to present your final report to the Conservation Committee to bring more awareness about the situation of these animals in North America.
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Internationally, 189 countries have signed an accord agreeing to create Biodiversity Action Plans to protect endangered and other threatened species. In the United States this plan is usually called a species Recovery Plan.
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