Conservation and Management of Wild Species

Short Answer

1. Why are small populations more threatened with extinction?

2. What should the two main aims of conservation be? Explain your reasoning.

3. If an area of an uncommon type of vegetation is reduced to small separated patches, how will this affect the population of animals living there? Would there be a difference in the reaction of the animals if that patch was a more common type of vegetation? How?

4. What features of animal life control the amount of space they need to survive? Describe two. Why can an animal the size of a raccoon survive so well in a city? Do humans change the amount of space animals need to survive? How?

5. Some ecologists think that habitat corridors are very important and some think that animals can function just as well without them. As usual, both of these opinions are likely true. Explain how both can be true at the same time.

6. Can humans alter conditions in such a way as to promote high diversity? How would you achieve this aim?

7. Describe the creation from the beginning through the present of the Shenandoah National Park. Be complete.

8. Describe how the Endangered Species Act works and what is contained within the document.