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...California condor, the Maryland darter, the Florida panther and other animals struggling to survive are not the only endangered species. Largely because of man's encroachment, many, perhaps dozens of American plant species are disappearing each year. Indeed, botanists estimate that some 3,000 of the 22,000 species of higher plants native to the U.S. may be facing extinction. Around the world, as many as 40,000 plant species are in trouble...
...lily-strewn channels of the Yellow Water wetlands in the tropical Top End of the Australian outback. "Brolga on the left," the tour guide announces. All eyes swivel left, toward the graceful gray crane. Cameras click. "Egret just ahead," he calls. More craning (of necks) and pointing of cameras. "Darter, tern, black-necked stork!" The birders in the group are in a state of near ecstasy. The rest of us are biding our time. Ten minutes later we round a corner and the collective cry goes up: "Crocodile!" There's a stampede as everyone rushes to the side...
...History's costliest ecoterrorist strike was carried out on behalf of the (a) spotted owl (b) lynx (c) snail darter (d) grizzly bear...
Unlike the snail darter, which only a militant ecologist could love, whales are inherently irresistible. People crowd by the millions into aquariums and theme parks to watch belugas and killer whales go through their paces. Tens of thousands risk seasickness each year to join whale-watching cruises. Songs of the Humpback Whale, a record of cetacean squeals and groans first released in 1970, sold 100,000 copies that year and has remained a fixture in New Age record bins...
...relied upon for irrigation and as the sole source of water for 1.7 million people in and around San Antonio. It is what biologists call a "hot spot," because the aquifer's spring system is home to 65 species found nowhere else on earth. Among them: the fountain darter, the Texas blind salamander and Texas wild rice. Falling water levels in the aquifer, caused by unregulated and excessive usage, threatened the species, and in 1991 the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, forcing it to take action...