Endangered and threatened mammals


	Endangered and threatened mammals
hitchhiker08
5-23-2008 12:19 PM
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endangered, mammals, marine, ecology, sanctuary, zoo, national parks, animals
hitchhiker08 says:
Shed a tear and lets try and do our bit to save these beautiful creatures...
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5-23-2008 1:16 PM
tanyamm
One missing from your list is the Vancouver Island Marmot. Its endangerment is considered critical. I just posted a short clip about it which should show soon I hope. All animals are vital to the world's eco-system and more should be done to protect them.
5-23-2008 1:33 PM
hitchhiker08
Please review the one missing in this clip, Vancouver Island Marmot and rightly pointed out by tanyamm:

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9075B75E-BAB0-4F2D-838F-F844977AFCCC/

http://www.marmots.org/
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The 16-meter-long whale was found dead on the beach. The sperm whale is an endangered species." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=12" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=12" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=12">A humpback whale jumps at a whale watching point,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=12"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chicagotribune.com/img/34B792AE-8933-4F3A-AF28-FFD882CC356F" alt="A humpback whale jumps at a whale watching point, off Okinawa, southwestern Japan. Like many other whales, the humpback whale, <i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>, is endangered." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=13" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=13" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=13">grizzly bear </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=13">
The grizzly bear, <I>Ursus arctos horribilis</I>, is a threatened species.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=13"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chicagotribune.com/img/0C373762-C4B8-45E6-B19F-16E27A0F49B0" alt="This photo released by Yellowstone National Park shows a grizzly bear moving through the brush in June 2005, in the park in Wyoming.
The grizzly bear, <i>Ursus arctos horribilis</i>, is a threatened species." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=14" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=14" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=14">A gray wolf rests in tall grass </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=14"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chicagotribune.com/img/FC0FED38-B82B-4E02-AA4A-C6F81888098C" alt="A gray wolf rests in tall grass in this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For many other areas of the United States, the gray wolf remains an endangered species. However in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, the gray wolf is not." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=15" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=15" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=15">Polar bear and cub on iceberg, in Arctic islands. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=15">U.S. Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species on May 14, 2008, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=15"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chicagotribune.com/img/6079EDCC-ED8C-4E2E-A509-433D7CBA7073" alt="Polar bear and cub on iceberg, in Arctic islands. The U.S. Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species on May 14, 2008, saying that because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, it must be protected." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=16" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=16" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=16">Black-footed ferrets peep out of their hole at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Cente</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-endangered-threatened-species-080515-pg,0,2716741.photogallery?index=16"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.chicagotribune.com/img/5034B7C2-AF15-40EA-853F-81EC753E7E80" alt="Black-footed ferrets peep out of their hole at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in this October 2005 photo, in Wellington, Colo.

The black-footed ferret is an endangered species," /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/430F76BD-FA44-4EFA-AA1A-9464913A8DBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>