Exam 15: Endangered Species and Protected Areas

Recent trends in protected area establishment have resulted from growing evidence that ________.

In Canada, national parks are established with the goal of protecting ________.

Up to ________ of terrestrial species are estimated to exist in the tropics.

Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA) was finally passed in ________.

The IUCN Red List includes approximately ________ species threatened with extinction.

Extinction is now occurring many times faster than natural rates.

What is active management?

Less than 1 per cent of the world's tropical plants have been screened for pharmaceutical applications.

Pollution is the leading cause of biodiversity loss.

Parks Canada has disallowed the removal of the second egg laid by whooping cranes in an effort to maintain natural processes in Wood Buffalo National Park.

Fragmentation of habitat can lead to higher genetic diversity within species.

There is a larger number of endangered species in the tropics than in temperate areas.

What do Nantel et al. (2014) say in the review of the many interactions between climate change and biodiversity in Canada suggest for managers of protected areas?

List the various roles of protected areas.

Values that humans derive from other species are known as ________.

________ were killed to help ________ survive.

________ was established (in part) to protect the wood bison.

Of the threatened species, ________ are threatened primarily by human consumption.

Breeding endangered species in zoos and aquaria is an example of ________.

Wheat originates from a wild species in ________.