Flying rugby winger Bryan Habana took on a cheetah in 2007 to help save the species from extinction.
Conservation partnership BirdLife International established the Bali Starling Project, with the cooperation of the Indonesian government and US and British zoos, in an attempt to save the species from extinction.
Based on your own research and class discussion, prepare a brief speech, approximately 2-3 minutes in length, stating what you recommend to save the species, and the potential consequences if the species is not protected.
But it can't save the human species from itself.
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The question of extinction most recently surfaced at the talks on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - the treaty meant to save endangered species from the devastating effects of trade.
The reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone has become a rare success story in the battle to save endangered species in the United States.
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"These large, charismatic species are ... the ones that require the largest amount of wild habitat, and by preserving them we save the less impressive species too, " said Klenzendorf.
But such things mark her out, mainly, as an idealist of the baby-boom generation a species commonplace everywhere in Europe save in the institutions of the European Union.
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With this huge sum of money Apple could address global biodiversity loss in an instant by single-handedly supporting the efforts to save thousands of endangered species, enlarging protected area networks for biodiversity and indigenous peoples and providing sustainable livelihoods for millions of others, not to mention all those disappearing North American apple habitats.
"A key finding of our analysis was that the most highly threatened species tend to relatively cheap to save on account of their small range sizes, such as the Razo lark, which lives on the island of Razo in the Cape Verde islands, " said Mr McCarthy.
The Mekong is home to over 1, 200 different species of fish, more than any other river save the Amazon and the Congo.
Welfare campaigners have welcomed the move as a critical step to save these species.
It is hoped that classifying current subspecies as fully fledged species will help inform conservation plans to save the most threatened populations.
Do we save a single platypus at the expense of, say, ten species of almost identical dandelions?
It has sidestepped the only public forum that exists to discuss whether action is needed to save a species that is being fished, traded and eaten to extinction.
The Italian Slow Food movement, which campaigns for traditional cuisine, has honoured 13 individuals and groups for their efforts to save and promote the world's heritage of tastes, flavours, animals and vegetable species.
The scientists say protecting just 7% of Africa's land area would help to save many species.
All the proceeds will directly fund global conservation projects to create sanctuaries and protect natural habitats to save endangered species from extinction.
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One more case from India: ornithologists who want to save three species of vulture (endangered because cattle carcasses are tainted by chemicals) see their best ally as the Parsees, who on religious grounds use vultures to dispose of human corpses.
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