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media type="custom" key="12153792" We realize that some animals are endangered, but do we know why? The first thing that comes to mind is pollution,but do we really ever consider what other reasons? Other reasons could be that their predators are too strong for them to handle.Or that some animals are eaten as delicacies by humans in places all over the world. By the time these animals are done hiding from their predators,they prey has been eaten by another animal. These animals aren't getting the nutrients they need and sitting around doing nothing will save them.


 * ===Yellow-Spotted River Turtle===
 * ===Central American River Turtle===
 * ===Leatherback Sea Turtle===
 * ===Green Sea Turtle===
 * ===Hawksbill Sea Turtle===
 * ===Alligator Snapping Turtle===
 * ===Big-Headed Turtle===
 * ===Indian Star Tortoise===
 * ===Galapagos Tortoise===
 * ===Pancake Tortoise===
 * ===Tuatara===
 * ===American Green Anole===
 * ===Fijan Banded Iguana===
 * ===Rhinoceros Iguana===
 * ===Piebald Chuckwalla===
 * ===Oustalet's Chameleon===
 * ===Panther Chameleon===
 * ===Armadillo Girdled Lizard===
 * ===Guianan Caiman Lizard===
 * ===Chinese Crocodile Lizard===
 * ===Gila Monster===
 * ===Round Island Keel-Scaled Boa===
 * ===Jamaican Boa===
 * ===Indian Rock Python===
 * ===Indian Spectacled Cobra===
 * ===Peringuey's Adder===
 * ===Timber Rattlesnake===
 * ===Chinese Alligator===
 * ===Black Caiman===
 * ===Ganges Gharial===
 * ===Cuban Crocodile===
 * ===Dwarf Crocodile===
 * ===False Gharial===
 * ===Olm===
 * ===Axolotyl===
 * ===Majorcan Midwife Toad===
 * ===Seychelles Frog===
 * ===Harlequin Toad===
 * ===Western Toad===
 * ===Blue Poison-Dart Frog===
 * ===Golden Mantella===
 * ===Tomato Frog===

also live in rocky habitats, so it is harder to disturb their homes. By cutting down trees you are tearing down the main
===home of the Blue Poison-Dart Frog and other amphibians. There are still endangered species in America, whether  it is in a === ===river, hole or tree. They are very hard  to come by, but some of them you may not want to see. Like the ===

===There are plenty of ways that you can save these animals, but one the biggest ways to to stop littering. People who litter are killing turtles not only in America but all over the world. Turtles can't tell the difference the difference from the plastic bags we litter and the jelly fish we like to eat. Turtles may not seem important, but they are apart of the food web. If they go extinct then some other animal who only eats turtles will die, and and so on. Also, pollution is bad for animals and people alike. By our polluting not just the endangered species but common was as well can get sick from the fumes and become extinct. We shouldn't have to stop using cars but instead of taking 2 cars to drive to the same place carpool. It's a simple and easy solution to cut the pollution in half to protect the animals homes.===

= = = __**Clouded leopards**__ = ====** One look at these beautiful cats is enough to explain why they are so horribly endangered. Clouded leopard, or //Neofelis nebulosa// //a//re small Asian “big cats” that tend to be about 2 to 3 ft in length, with a tail measuring about 3 ft, they have distinct leopard spots, that tend to be larger than the average leopard’s. the spots can range in size from the size of a half dollar to the size of a person’s palm. Usually clouded leopards are gray, with a white underbelly, and dark gray and black spots resembling the random shapes of clouds. Clouded leopards tend to live in the Himalayas, southern China, and Taiwan to peninsula, also in the dense tropical evergreen forest of Malaysia. These endangered creachrs eat wild deer, pigs, monkeys, and smaller animals such as squirrels or birds that inhabit the same territory as them. These mesmerizing cats are threatened by a high demand for their attractive pelts, which have ceremonial meaning in Taiwan Deforestation, habitat destruction, and poaching also threaten these cats. You can help this valuable species by "adopting" a clouded leopard or donating to any clouded leopard conservation oriented charity or organization you trust. Big organizations like The National Zoo has been working in partnership with the Zoological Park Organization of Thailand, the Nashville Zoo and the Clouded Leopard Species Survival Plan to develop a clouded leopard breeding program in Thai zoos to further extend this leopard’s stay on earth. **====

=__ **Red Wolf** __= ====** The Red Wolf is an endangered species of wolf that livedoriginally in most of eastern North America; Red Wolves were found from east Pennsylvania, to the south Florida aria and west Texas and the very eastern part of Canada. Each Red Wolf is about 15 - 16 inches, and has a length of 4.5 - 5.5 feet and weighs 40 - 80 pounds and is also known as Canis Rufus; it looks similar to a coyote. In the last century, habitat destruction and breeding with Coyotes have brought the Red Wolf to the brink of extinction; __they are the rarest and most endangered species of wolf in the world.__ As said before the Red Wolf is similar to that of a coyote, and reddish in color its coat is rather smooth with a gray forehead and darker gray on its legs mixed with wight patches and a cream under belly, they usually have longer ears and longer legs than normal wolves. Red wolves tend to eat small mammals such as rabbits and rodents, they are also known to eat insects, berries and occasionally deer, eating deer is rare for them, because they are such a small breed of wolf. Now after telling you all this negative stuff about these beautiful wolves, I’ll tell you something positive. Meany charities and organizations are trying to help preserve this stunning predator, some are as widely known as the simple fish and wildlife federation, others do things like let you symbolically adopt a red wolf when you make a donation of a certain dollar amount. I hope you consider helping these wolves in such a need of human assistance. **====

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There are many causes of extinction. Some are natural others are man made environmental problems. Some of the natural problems include changes in climate, asteroids and cosmic radiation, acid rain, and many others. Changes in climate can effect the environment because the earth and it species can't keep up with the rapid weather changes. Asteroids and cosmic radiation can effect the environment because when the asteroids smash into the earth and can diminish the area around it. Also, the radiation from the sun and outer space is now being exposed to habitats not used to it. Acid rain is when sulfur dioxide is absorbed and put into the atmosphere by water droplets in clouds t is then exposed during precipitation. Some causes of extinction by man made problems are pollution, damaging or getting rid of natural habitat, poaching, and trapping animals for profit. Pollution is all around us and is caused by many things like burning harmful fuel on a daily basis, contamination of soil caused by waste, and incorrectly getting rid of garbage like dispose of waste in lakes and oceans. Destruction of habitat is when man takes the earths natural habitat tares it down and creates something non environmental like a mall, this can harm the animals in there natural habitat. Poaching is illegal hunt for animals on grounds that under protection and illegal to hunt on. Also, trapping animals for pleasure/profit can be another cause of extinction. We all have been to a circus but have you ever wondered how they got those animals? Or how they treat them outside the circus? This doesn't hopefully happen a lot anymore but when animals are in a circus they can be harmed and abused plus they are taken out of there natural habitat.