Exam 15: Endangered Species and Protected Areas

The goal of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan between Canada, the USA, and Mexico is to ________.

According to the Ecological Integrity Panel, the ecological integrity in all the national parks in Canada is in peril.

Protected areas can play a role ________.

Tropical deforestation is caused by ________.

No national park anywhere on the planet is big or remote enough to exclude the impacts of modern human society.

The Canadian species hunted to extinction as a way of feeding fishers and stuffing mattresses was ________.

One of the main responses to the endangerment of species is to ________.

________ is the leading cause of biodiversity loss in Canada.

________ would make a species more vulnerable to extinction.

Populations of the peregrine falcon started to crash in the 1940s due to ________.

In their global reassessment of the resilience of key planetary systems, Steffen et al. (2015) found ________ to be the most stressed of all natural systems.

Standard economic systems tend to ________.

According to the IUCN's classification of protected areas, the category most intensively protected from humans is ________.

Decline in ancient murrelets' populations in the Haida Gwaii is being caused by the introduction of the ________.

Wood Buffalo National Park protects more than its namesake; it is also home to the very endangered ________.

Scientist in different parts of the world have recently discovered massive reductions in the numbers of forest insects compared with populations ________ years ago.

The ________ convention outlines regulations for the import and export of endangered flora and fauna.

What three main factors have contributed to the destruction of tropical forests?

In situ conservation ________.

________ led to extirpation of bald eagles on the Canadian side of Lake Erie.