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.
virginia on 03.27.06 @ 01:28 PM EST [link]
