hd animal pictures 2013: Wild Animals Pictures With Names

Friday 6 December 2013

Wild Animals Pictures With Names

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Recommended by the National Science Teachers Association and winner of a Gold Mom’s Choice Award, the third and final book in Dawn Publications’ Earth Heroes series, Earth Heroes: Champions of Wild Animals, is a collection of eight intriguing biographies that will educate, fascinate, and inspire readers.
Each biography features a “champion” of animals, someone whose work and contributions have significantly added to the knowledge and preservation of wild animals and contributed to the environmental movement. While some well-known figures are featured, such as Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson, the book also includes lesser-known scientists and early environmentalists such as Roger Tory Peterson and modern-day activists such as the Douglas-Hamilton family.
The biographies have a particular emphasis on how the subjects’ childhoods helped them to develop interests and passions that later guided them into their groundbreaking work, often in spite of great obstacles. This focus will inspire readers, and help them realize that they too can make significant contributions to the world. This empowering message is reiterated in the last section of the book, which provides resources for children to learn more and get involved in both science and their local
communities.
Authors Carol L. and Bruce Malnor, both educators, have added several features to the end of each section: a Fast Facts page, parallel timelines of the subject’s life and significant historical and environmental events, and a “Ripples of Influence” list which includes those who influenced and those who have been influenced by the subject. These unique elements are an additional layer of interest, but perhaps more importantly, they re-emphasize the overarching theme of interconnectedness. Humans are connected to other humans and animals, and the impact of each creature affects the environment. The Malnors manage to include this theme in each of the biographies. While there are many notable aspects of the book, the fusion of education and story is perhaps the most valuable. The biographies include scientific ideas such as ecology and biodiversity without becoming dry. The enthusiasm each individual had/has is captured and translated into engaging pieces. The book will appeal to 9-12 year olds, especially readers interested in science or animals.
With interesting stories of those courageous and tenacious enough to affect change, Earth Heroes: Champions of Wild Animals can teach children not just about the excellent work of these “champions” but also that by harnessing their unique abilities, they too can make valuable, significant contributions to the world around them.
We’ve made just one change to All About Wildlife’s Top 10 List of Endangered Species for 2014. Our updated Ten Most Endangered Animals list is now available for your viewing.
As with any Top 10 list, in order to add something to it, something had to be taken away. In this case we have placed the lowland gorilla on our auxiliary list with its close cousin, the mountain gorilla—which the lowland gorilla itself replaced on our Top Ten list several years ago. Moving into the Number 6 position on our Top Ten Most Endangered Species List is the saola, a hoofed rainforest animal so seldom seen it’s been called the “Asian unicorn.”
Why did we make this change? Well, it’s not because lowland gorillas are any less endangered. In fact if anything, this huge primate species is in even more trouble than it was when we first added it to the list. But as we’ve often said in a number of different places on All About Wildlife, there are hundreds if not thousands of animal species that deserve a spot on our Ten Most Endangered Animals List. Endangered species lists exist to serve the purposes or highlight the interests of whomever makes up the list, and the animals on any particular list of endangered species are no more deserving of protection than a host of dwindling species who have not been named to the list.
For 2014, we wanted to give the (temporary) spotlight to the saola, because for us this secretive, antelope-like relative of the cow represents the deep distress of wildlife species throughout the forests of Southeast Asia. Not only is deforestation threatening almost all the animal species in this tropical area of the planet, but poaching—the illegal hunting and trapping of wildlife—is surging throughout Southeast Asian rain forests. This poaching is fueled by the burgeoning market for bushmeat as well as steeply rising demand for the body parts of numerous endangered animals, which are used as ingredients to make “magical” folk remedies in China, Vietnam and elsewhere. Biologists and game wardens report that it is now difficult to go almost anywhere in Southeast Asia’s rainforests without running across snares indiscriminately set for any wildlife, including endangered animals, unlucky enough to blunder into them.
In any case, right at the bottom of our Ten Most Endangered Species list, you will find links that will take you to pages where you can still read about the Western lowland gorilla, the greater bamboo lemur, the kakapo parrot, and several other critically endangered species that occupied spots on our Top 10 Most Endangered list in previous years. We’re not forgetting about any of these highly imperiled animals—and neither should anyone else.