Endangereed species

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Jimmy Tsoi

Wong Hing Kong

3G

2/10/99

What is an ENDANGERED SPECIES ???
An ENDANGERED SPECIES means animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. We must protect them so we can keep them alive on earth!!

　

　

What are the reasons for Kiwi becoming Endangered ???
Seventy-five years ago, just over five million Kiwi roamed the forests of New Zealand in Australia. Now less than 75,000 remain only. If the Kiwi population declines at the present rate of 5.8 per cent (5.8%) a year, New Zealand's national icon will be virtually extinct on the Mainland within 75 years. The main reason is that the loss of habitat and growing numbers of predators have taken their toll. The kiwi mostly live in some temperate, evergreen, broadleaf forests and shrublands like temperate forest & rainforest, tropical scrub forest. They are strictly terrestrial. Human destruction of habitat by logging, predation, fire, disease, and the introduction of mammal species have all contributed to the decline of Kiwi populations. Efforts to preserve the Kiwi include setting some Island as a reserve. And these lands are now fewer and fewer , because they may now using for manufacturing or other usage. They simply can't live healthy without a good habitat, so they became the endangered species now!

　

How can we save our Kiwi ???
In 1991 the Bank of New Zealand became a partner in the Kiwi Recovery Programme with the Department of Conservation and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society because we wanted to do something about this decline. On 7 July 1999, the Bank renewed its commitment to the Kiwi Recovery Programme for a further three years, which means that vital research work will continue, bringing us closer to an understanding of the kiwi and how we can protect it. The recovery strategy includes protecting nests and Kiwi in the wild through controlling predators. Because stoats, ferrets, cats and dogs are killing 95 per cent of Kiwi chicks in the wild, chicks are being raised in captivity and released when they are more able to defend themselves. However, adult Kiwi may also be killed by ferrets and dogs.

My ENDANGERED SPECIES

Source : http://www.endangeredspecies.com

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Apterygiformes

Family: Apterygidae

Name: Kiwi

Status: EN (Endangered)

Range: Kapiti Island in Australia and in remote forests of South Island (New Zealand)

Reason of FC: Loss of Habitat and increasing of Predators

　

　

　

Features:

The Kiwi is a flightless, solitary, nocturnal bird. Named for their cry, Kiwis are brownish or grayish in color and may be streaked or barred. They have small heads, hairlike plumage, minute wings, and no external tail. The bill is long and slender, with nostrils near the tip. Kiwis range from 1.25 to 4 kg (2.75 to 9.0 lb) in weight and from 45 to 84 cm (18 to 33 in) in length and stand up to 30 cm (1 ft) high. They inhabit humid forests or swamps, where they feed on insects, snails, berries, and especially earthworms. Recent experiments confirm that kiwis locate food by smell, which is unusual for birds. The one or two very large eggs, about 13 cm (5 in) in length and 400 g (14 oz) in weight, are laid in a burrow, and the smaller male incubates them for about eleven weeks.

Economic Importance for Humans:
Negative effects of the Kiwi on the economy of New Zealand would include the loss of money due to the restriction of logging, and the loss of money spent on research and preservation of the Kiwis.

Status Code :

Endangered	EN	*- Animals who are in danger of becoming extinct if nothing is done to protect them.*
Vulnerable	VU	- Animals that are numerous but are under great threat of becoming endangered.
Rare	RA	- Animals that are found only in one or only a few places, or thinly spread over a larger area.
Indeterminate	ID	- Animals where there is not enough information about them to really determine whether they are endangered, vulnerable, or rare.
Insufficiently Known	IK	- Again, animals which there is very little information on them to know exactly which group to include them in.
Commercially Threatened	CT	- Animals which are being hunted in increasing numbers that there is a great possibility that they will become endangered if something isn't done to curb the commercial hunt of them.

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