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Morgan Currier

English 1201

Professor Adrienne Cassel

14 July 2019

Annotated Bibliography

My essay will attempt to educate people on how to help endangered species. I am curious

as to why so many animals become extinct and how many ways there are to help endangered

animals.

Almaneih, Susie. “12 Things we Should all do to Protect Endangered Species.” HuffPost,

HuffPost, 14 Mar. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/12-things-we-should-all-do-to-protect-

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Susie Almaneih published “12 Things we Should all do to Protect Endangered Species” at

03/13/2017 05:10 pm on Huffpost about things people can do to save endangered species.

The current legislation and government bodies that protect wild species from extinction

are both being defunded and reorganized. This article provides ways in which ordinary

citizens and environmental groups can help save these important links on the food chain.

Almaneih starts the article off by stating that one way to help endangered species is being

educated and educating others about the endangered species in your area. Recycling and
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buying sustainable products, growing native plants, reducing water consumption and

personal footprints are also some other ways that Almaneih lists to help save them. The

writer is informing people for an audience of environmentalists. The writer is a

Technology Marketing Professional and she is credible because of the facts she uses in her

article. The article was also published on a well reviewed page. I will use this article in my

research paper because it gives 12 very good and backed-up answers to my research

proposal.

Barker, Rocky. “Saving all the Parts: Reconciling Economics and the Endangered Species Act.”

Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993,

http://kong.sinclair.edu/search~S5?/Xsaving+endangered+species&searchscope=5&SORT

=DZ/Xsaving+endangered+species&searchscope=5&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY

=saving+endangered+species/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=Xsaving+endangered+sp

ecies&searchscope=5&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C.

Rocky Barker published “Saving all the Parts: Reconciling Economics and the

Endangered Species Act” in 1993 about saving endangered species. He is the

environmental writer for the Idaho Statesman in Boise. Barker has seen his column

broadcasted in newspapers across the nation. The National Wildlife Federation awarded

him its National Conservation Achievement Award in 1999. Saving All the Parts is a

journalist's exploration of the intertwining of endangered species protection and the

economic future of resource dependent communities -- those with local economies based

on fishing, logging, ranching, mining, and other resource intensive industries. Rocky

Barker presents an insightful overview of current endangered species controversies and a

comprehensive look at the wide-ranging implications of human activities. The book

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analyzes trends in natural resource management, land use planning, and economic

development that can lead to a future where economic activity can be sustained without

the loss of essential natural values. Throughout, Barker provides a thorough and balanced

analysis of both the ecological and economic forces that affect the lives and livelihoods of

the nation's inhabitants -- both human and animal. Rocky is also the author of a highly

acclaimed book and Saving all Parts was cited for "excellence in achievement," by the

Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award judges. He co-authored the Flyfisher's Guide to

Idaho and the Wingshooter's Guide to Idaho with Ken Retallic. This book helps give real

world examples of helping endangered species and actual evidence of it working to save

the animals in action.

Conant, Sheila. “Saving Endangered Species by Translocation: Are We Tinkering with

Evolution?” BioScience, vol. 38, no. 4, 1988, pp. 254–257., doi:10.2307/1310848.

Shelia Conant published “Saving Endangered Species by Translocation: Are We Tinkering

with Evolution?” in the BioScience magazine on April 1, 1988 about how people are

slowly destroying the endangered species’ habitats. The article talks about how

translocations have been working for some endangered species, but eventually has

undesirable effects. The ecology has been showing negative long term effects and the

translocationers themselves are starting to show unexpected negative effects. Recent

studies conducted in Hawaii have shown translocations representing human intervention

in the evolutionary process. Sheila Conant’s career in ecology and conservation in Hawai‘i

has spanned over 40 years. Her list of publications on their ecology, evolution,

conservation and management is astounding. In addition, her tireless community service,

public lectures, assistance in creating GK-12 curriculum and other educational materials,
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as well as her dedicated work with her graduate students, has influenced many aspects of

conservation throughout the state. Sheila has also played a major hand in landing sizable

grants and contracts to further numerous conservation efforts here. Her list of awards and

accomplishments are impressive and extensive, as is her list of inspired and successful

students. Sheila served as the Chair of the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology

Graduate Specialization at the University of Hawai‘i from 1999-2001, and as Chair of the

Department of Zoology. This would be a useful research article because of the evidence

and studies conducted in the article, however, the article is not up to date.

Marshall, Michael. “Earth - What Is the Point of Saving Endangered Species?” BBC, BBC, 14

July 2015, www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150715-why-save-an-endangered-species.

Micheal Marshall wrote an article titled, “Earth - What Is the Point of Saving Endangered

Species?” in the BBC Earth site on July 14, 2015 about why people should start saving

endangered species. Marshall starts out by talking about mountain gorillas, a critically

endangered species. He thinks people don’t think about saving endangered species

because of the cost, when they don’t realize all the benefits that the creatures give for us

when they are here on this earth. A recent study estimated that the extinction rate has

increased a hundredfold over the last century, and we seem to be to blame. Some of the

services are obvious that endangered animals do for us. For instance, there are plants and

animals that we eat. Meanwhile, photosynthetic plankton in the sea, and green plants,

provide us with the oxygen we breathe. These are direct, but sometimes the services

provided can be more subtle. Pollinating insects like bumblebees are an obvious example.

Many of our crop plants rely on these insects to produce seeds, and would not survive – let

alone provide us with food – without them. This is why the decline in pollinating insects
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has provoked so much concern. Micheal is a freelance science journalist and has been

covering life sciences and the environment since 2007. He has a BA and MPhil from the

University of Cambridge and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College

London. He began his career as a journalist with New Scientist, where he remained for

seven years, latterly as environment reporter and then environment news editor. In 2014 he

moved to BBC Worldwide as deputy editor of the BBC Earth website. He subsequently

became acting editor, before leaving in summer 2017 to go freelance. Since then, he has

edited a book for New Scientist on the science of human origins. This article is credible

and useful because of his citations he used and the site it was published on.

Mingtai, Liu. “The Battle Is On to Save an Endangered Duck.” The New York Times, The New

York Times, 2 July 2019, www.nytimes.com/paidpost/china-daily/the-battle-is-on-to-save-

an-endangered-duck.html?searchResultPosition=2.

Liu Mingtai, Zhang Yu and Randy Wright all wrote the article about an endangered duck

on the china daily news and was updated on June 21 2019. The article is written about the

Chinese merganser and how they survive human depredations, mainly through pollution,

logging and hunting. When the trees go, the birds lose their homes. And when their

pristine waters go, the sensitive species is pushed to the edge. Unfortunately, the great

forests of Changbaishan Mountain have dwindled since the 1970s, and along with them so

has the population of the Chinese merganser. The nature reserve is putting nesting boxes in

trees, removing fishing nets from rivers and requiring that newly hatched fish be released

to maintain the ducks’ food supply, according to Cui Zhigang, deputy head of the reserve’s

wildlife protection bureau. This article will be useful to me because it goes into a specific
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animal and how humans have done specific things to help the duck, which has reported to

be working.

Mongabay.com. “Jane Goodall Interview: 'The Most Important Thing Is Sharing Good News'.”

Mongabay Environmental News, 17 Nov. 2017, news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-

goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/.

Jane Goodall’s interview was posted in the Mongabay.com on November 17, 2017 about

the idea that trophy hunting is an important component of funding the conservation of

species like lions and rhinos. Also discussed is China’s increasing environmental

awareness; the importance of conservation groups working with communities on multiple

levels like health and education, and not just the environment. Her interview really

narrowed down on chimp personalities and individual species. She states that most

animals that people think are worthless or old, tend to be the most important species to

Earth. Goodall talks about trophy hunting and her opinions on it. She says that nobody

has ever proved that the money from trophy hunting actually does go back to conserve the

species. And there’s this recent exposé, really, of the group in Oxford that had been

working with those lions, where Cecil was shot by the dentist. And the outpouring of

anger because Cecil was shot – he was a collared lion, he had a name. In fact on the one

hand every single lion – just because he doesn’t have a name – is just as much of a

personality as Cecil. It’s just that nobody has bothered to study him. And when people

became so outraged because Cecil was killed, then they began giving money to this

research group at Oxford. I can’t remember the amount but it was quite a large amount of

money. And that wasn’t used to help conserve those particular lions because the group

continued to sit on the fence and not to defend even their own lions being killed, the ones
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that they tagged, as long as they got their collar back. And I just find it ethically very, very

disturbing. Jane Goodall is a very well-known environmentalist and the world’s most

recognizable conservationist and one of this media outlet’s esteemed advisory board

members. This interview is credible because Jane has made amazing contributions to

conserving the lands of endangered species and has seen it with her own eyes.

World Wildlife Fund. “Protecting Species.” WWF, World Wildlife Fund, July 2019,

www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/protecting-species.

This web page was founded on April 29, 1961, Morges, Switzerland. The World Wide

Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization, working in the field of

the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment. It was

formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and

the United States. It lists the animals that the WWF is helping and how they are helping

them. For example, under the subtitle Tigers, WWF wrote, “After a century of decline,

tiger numbers are on the rise. At least 3,890 tigers remain in the wild, but much more work

is needed to protect this species that’s still vulnerable to extinction. Tigers may be one of

the most revered animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction. WWF believes we can

save wild tigers. We have set a bold but achievable goal of Tx2: doubling the number of

tigers in the wild by 2022, when the next Year of the Tiger is celebrated.” WWF helped

bring back the Amur tiger and Africa’s black rhinos from the edge of extinction. Their site

gives information about what they have done, what they are doing, and what the plan to

do. This site is credible because many research studies go onto WWF and there is a TV

show about it. This site will be very useful to me because of all the information provided

and animals given that the WWF is helping.