ENDANGERED SPECIES By: Melissa Forinash Period: 8 Endangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and (many people don’t consider them) plants. CAUSES OF EXTINCTION Millions of years before humans, extinction of living things was linked to geological and …showed first 75 words of 671 total…

…showed last 75 words of 671 total…a oil pill) these groups are trying to stop the killing. In conclusion I just want every one to know that endagered species can be as big as a blue whale or as small as a tiny little ant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Endagered Species, Grolier Encyclopedia, VII (1993),1-6. Gore, Rick. The March Toward Extinctotion. National Geographic,CLXXV (June, 1993), 662-698. Smith, Robert J. Endagered Species. Ed. by Derek Clien. New York,New York; Scholastic Inc., 1998 pp.1-81