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Central Kalahari Game Reserve Bushmen Relocation

In ten pages this report considers the relocation of the San Bushmen as a way of protecting this 'endangered species,' but the res...

Contemporary World and Chinese Medicine

Chinese medical traditions are the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and its effects when combined with Western medicine...

Is There Room for both Crocodiles and People?

Back from being listed as endangered species, crocodiles have made a remarkable comeback. This paper examines the problems created...

Northeast's Gray Wolf and Its Endangered Status

a study of a species. How does one differentiate the gray wolf from another animal? What does the gray wolf look like exactly? Th...

Life History and Description of Coho Salmon

In seven pages one of the smallest salmon varieties known scientifically as Oncorhynchus kisutch is examined in terms of habitat ...

Overview of the Genus Cycas or the Living Fossil 'Palms'

In five pages the Cycas genus is examined in this overview that considers its long survival and reasons to the recent endangering ...

Biodiversity, Sharks, and Overfishing

In eight pages this paper discusses overfishing and its effects upon biodiversity and species including sharks. Eight sources are...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Social Change: How It Shapes And Impacts Society And The Human Family

did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the aspects of freed...

Monkey Eating Eagle of the Philippines

Noting how the Monkey-eating eagle requires "a contiguous territory in excess of 100 square kilometers of advanced second growth a...

Megafauna

Interestingly, the Actodus simus still lives today and is thirty percent larger than the grizzly bear ("Pleistocene Megafauna," 20...

Owl Ears and Their Presumed Efficiency

not balanced with each other and are different shapes. This is in order to augment depth perception. Owls have very keen vision ...

Environment and Moral Pluralism

one thing, the variety of the species is one reason there are many different theories; each species could require a different type...

Ecology of the Galapagos

islands and islets. There are 13 major islands in the archipelago, ranging in size from 5 to 1800 square miles in size, with more ...

Phylogenetic Order Within the Animal Kingdom

The eight organisms that are the focus of this paper, i.e. the common mosquito, the common flea, the...

The Perch and Frog and Their Impact

caecilians - is more closely related to the lepospondyls, another group of archaic amphibians" (Skrepnick, 2008). What this foss...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

The Deepwater Horizon Problem

and wetlands along the coasts. BPs first response to contain the oil spill was to dump about two million gallons of dispersants...

Was Lucy not our Earliest Ancestor

Mankinds evolution has been marked by distinct physiological changes as well as distinct cultural and technological changes. Pres...

Sixteen Microorganisms and Their Impact on Human Health

This paper provides a species overview, diagnostic techniques, and recommended treatment for Staphylococcus aureus, Mycobacterium ...

Regulations and Zoning

In a paper of four pages, the authore reflects on major environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, a...

Man’s impact on the environment

to what it might mean to other species of animals. When we consider habitat disruption at the hands of development, hundred...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

The Threat to Earth Presented by Global Warming

on global warming: "We know the theory, which says that human activity could be important, but the theory cannot be trusted until ...

Climate Change

and Vranes). This same organization reported that the ice on the Arctic Sea was the lowest ever in 2007 (Nodvin and Vranes). The d...

"The Effects Of Television" By William Henry III

activity and increase in food consumption due in great part to highly effective advertising. The authors support for this argumen...

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves

National Nature Reserve (which well refer to as the Reserves to avoid all those diacritical marks) comprises the A?r Massif, a "va...

Lemurs

million years ago (Weir 16). One theory on how lemurs came to Madagascar is that some of their number was "washed from the African...

The Threat of Global Warming

atmosphere have been measured since the late 1950s (Schneider). These measurements have revealed a steady increase in the amount o...

Giant Pandas and River Otters

carnivores, but they are vegetarians and eat almost nothing but bamboo (World Wildlife Federation). "Pandas live mainly on the gro...