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03/27/2006: "Endangered Species"

Endangered species is a loaded and often misunderstood term. Actually, we should say threatened species, of which three classifications exist: Critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable species include vertabrates, which can be cold-blooded birds or mammals, invertabrates and plants. Based on an article by Christina Ellis in the Boston Globe a few years ago, 3% of cold-blooded vertabrates were threatened, 12% of birds, 2% of mammals, 2% of invertabrates and 2% of plants. I mention all this because in the winter 2006 issue of AWI Quarterly, D.J. Schubert writes that the Endangered Species Act is under fire with it's integrity threatened. I guess it's time for all of us to contact him at dj@awionLine.org and decide what to do about it. Also, redlist.org has more information on the status of species assessed by The World Conservation Union and it's Species Survival Commission.