Task
- Option One: In a few sentences, recap the issue being discussed in this story. What’s the problem? Why does it matter? What concerns you the most? What do you already know about the issue? What do you need to find out more about? What do you hope will be covered in future chapters?
- Option Two: Find an issue in your community that's similar to the one being debated in this story. Create a set of questions that you would like to research in order to better understand the local implications of this debate. (Be sure to investigate all sides of the issue!)
What do you think?
- Do you think solutions to this issue are obvious or easy? Why or why not?
- Without doing any research, can you think of a species that has recently gone extinct?
- Do you think Canada is doing a good job of saving our endangered species?
- Sam Sullivan told us that when it comes to making hard decisions for nature: “People have to feel that there is something in it for them, and that they are benefiting...just as much as everybody else.” What do you think?
- Can we actually save every species?
- As a young person, if you proposed a better solution to this issue, do you think anyone would listen to you? Why or why not?
Terms & Concepts
- Social Justice
- Economic Insecurity
- Changer Maker
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity Loss
- ‘Forest for the trees’
- Natural Selection
- Species
- Background Extinction Rate
- Vertebrate
- Protected Area
- Habitat
- Habitat Loss
- Extinction
- Sixth Mass Extinction
- Ecosystem
- Invasive Species
- Wildlife Exploitation
- Core Habitat
- Genetic Connectivity/Genetic Diversity
- Coexistence
- Umbrella Species
- Charismatic Megafauna
- Species Preservation
- Scarcity Mindset
- Abundancy Mindset
- IUCN
- Philanthropic Innovator
- Systems Issue
- Consumer Market
- Regional System
- Global System
- Pollster
- Charismatic Megafauna
- Captive Breeding
- Habitat Revitalization
This story in the media
All 6 endangered spotted owls released in Fraser Valley have died, B.C. says
Bias: none
Source: CTV News
File Type: Article
Overview: All 6 endangered spotted owls released in Fraser Valley have died, B.C. says
Web Link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/all-6-endangered-spotted-owls-released-in-fraser-valley-have-died-bc-says/
Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
Bias: Centre
Source: Yale
File Type: Essay
Overview: Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
Web Link: https://e360.yale.edu/features/de-extinction
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Bias: none
Source: The Guardian
File Type: Study/Article
Overview: Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Web Link: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/protecting-just-12-of-earths-land-could-save-worlds-most-threatened-species-says-study-aoe
Referenced Resources
- Protect Biodiversity From Home – Protect Nature Challenge
- 6 Ways to Preserve Biodiversity
- Top 10 ways you can protect biodiversity
- How much will it cost to save nature - and who will pay?
- How much will it cost to save nature?
- What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting
- To save life on Earth, here’s the $100 billion-a-year solution
- Why the US won’t join the single most important treaty to protect nature
- Poorer nations need $60b a year to protect biodiversity, nature: NGOs
- Rich countries have 'moral obligation' to finance biodiversity conservation around the world
- Rich countries must pay for the environmental damage they have wreaked
- Conservation Ranking of Grizzly Bear Population Units - 2019
- Inforgraphics for Government of Canada
- Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species
- Assessing the Value of the Umbrella-Species Concept for Conservation Planning with Meta-Analysis
- Western black rhino declared extinct
- A final farewell: the Western Black Rhino goes extinct
- Extinction obituary: the sudden, sad disappearance of the Christmas Island forest skink
- Mrs. Barbara Cartwright at the Justice and Human Rights Committee
- More ‘pandemic pets’ are ending up in shelters. Is there a fix? Experts weigh in
- Righting Canada's wronged animals
- Why We're So Divided Over Saving Wolves
- Coyote Town Hall: Questioning the politics of ecological discourse
- Whooping Crane
- An Aerial Survey Technique for the Forest-Dwelling Ecotype of Woodland Caribou, Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Feds inject $24 million into caribou captive breeding