%#Frozensperm could save the #endangered #black-footedferrets from going extinct, while preserving #geneticdiversity. Thus far, results have been successful.% - http://clapway.com/2015/08/16/frozen-sperm-endangered-species-101/

THE ENDANGERED SPECIES

Since the modern world has been making progress in technology and agricultural expansion, the natural world has steadily been shrinking. Greatest among natural victims are rain forests, which house so many precious animals. Today, there is a list that is a compendium of the most critically endangered species.

Conservationists battle daily to raise public awareness of the danger in losing a species, and stress the importance of getting involved in the conservation of threatened species. Reports are regularly released with scientific research regarding the status of each endangered population, and our collective efforts to save them.

NEWS WITH A NEW METHOD

In recent news, a press release was published on the 13th of August about a new method of conservation for endangered species. Using frozen sperm, the method came from scientists working in Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago, Illinois.

Around the same time, another press release was released to the public, citing research for this new method. The research can be viewed in the Animal Conservation which was also released the same day.

The new method involved using frozen sperm for later artificial insemination. The method was tested out on the endangered black-footed ferrets and thus far, the results have been successful.

THE RESULTS

The frozen sperm came from a ferret who has been dead for the past twenty years. Now, the sire has offspring to continue his line and steadily increase the ferret population.

Such successful results show that not only are frozen sperm a viable option for conservation efforts, but also that it is a viable, practical way to preserve the essence of these precious animals. Thus far, the results have been promising.

However, the concern of genetic diversity is still under consideration; With such a small population, researchers are worried about the degenerative effects of multi-generational inbreeding; namely, that the lack of genetic diversity according the research will impend the chances of pregnancies or conception and lead to malformation in offspring later.

The deceased ferret sire seems to be a key example of maintaining greater the chances of conception, by appealing to the dead animals, the problem of finding a wide enough scope of genetic diversity to avoid deficient offspring is assuaged. It goes to show how essential it really is for endangered species to maintain a bank of frozen sperm, especially for species with genetically thin and quantitatively small populations, like the black-footed ferrets.

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Polar Bears Will Soon Disappear From Earth Forever - http://clapway.com/2015/07/08/polar-bears-will-soon-disappear-from-earth-forever987/

Our White Ice-Loving Friends are Disappearing

The concerns about the ever rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and constant warnings about global warming making their way into everyday news and our lives, it is no surprise that bears inhabiting the arctic regions are now suffering as a result. The extent of the damage done to the Polar Bears may mean they’ll soon be gone in a scant few years.

In the Blink of an Eye, the Polar Bears Will Be Gone

No one wants to see our white furry friends go. That’s why the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has responded to the declining population of the polar bears by drafting up a conservation plan to save them, or at least minimize their losses. The draft of the conservation effort can be found here on which it lists that number of polar bears that are present across the northern arctic tundra is lower than what one would expect. The number concerns many who are keeping an eye on the population.

The one factor that accounts for most of the reason for their declining population is a changing, warming climate, and all its complications and consequences, including rising sea levels and the melting of the polar ice caps. Under the final rule on the ESA listing of the Polar Bear back in 2008 as a threatened species, it states that the species is on the brink of becoming an endangered species should the loss of habitat continue.

What exactly is the plan to save them?

With efforts to severely limit the amount of greenhouse gases that is emitted by the U.S every year, efforts to save the polar bear are underway. However, this is not happening without some rebuking and chiding of the EPA on their power plant rule, for reasons relating to the standing foundations of government powers by the Constitution that the rule overstepped. The clock is ticking now to see how successful efforts to save the polar bears turn out.

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Polar Bears Will Soon Disappear From Earth Forever

Could Vermont Help Save Monarch Butterflies? - http://clapway.com/2015/06/28/could-vermont-help-monarch-butterflies654/

The monarch butterflies are dying out

Perhaps you have seen them flying by in clusters during their normal season migrations to Mexico or California. They form a cloud of orange, black, and white. They are, of course, the monarch butterflies. Yet despite their seemingly massive clusters, their population has been declining recently to the point where it becomes worrisome.
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation estimates that since the 1990s, when an estimated one billion monarch butterflies migrated, there has been an estimated eighty percent drop in population. The number of butterflies making the migration at around 56.6 million. Thus far, partnerships across the U.S. are in place to help recover and restore the population. Towards this end, there’s a monarch breeding habitat in the works.

The threat to our beautiful monarch butterflies

The loss in population is mostly due to the threat of losing milkweed, a plant that is instrumental in sustaining the lives of monarch caterpillars. With the continual use of herbicide, the plant dies out and so does the caterpillar who depends on the plant. But also the loss can be due to other things such as climate change, not just herbicide alone.

Earlier in the year, the Obama Administration and some conversation groups launched efforts to stop the declining population of the monarch butterflies. The plan involved growing two million dollars’ worth of milkweed from Minnesota to Mexico, a route that is the main migration route for the butterflies.

How does Vermont figure in?

Recently, a biologist with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department stated that the state may play an important factor in helping to sustain the monarch butterfly population. The biologist, Mark Ferguson, says that meadows and fields in the state can provide a nice habitat to house milkweed, the very plant essential to early monarch butterfly life. That way, when the monarch butterflies migrate back north after the winter season is over, to stay in the Vermont area, they then have a nice habitat in which to lay their eggs. There, the young caterpillars feast on the milkweed plant to eventually grow into the monarch butterflies we see flying on their season migration.

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Could Vermont Help Save Monarch Butterflies?