Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species Study Guide
Some key questions (answer in your own words):
What causes some species to become rare or extinct?
What management practices do rare or endangered species have that are different than
common species?
What are mandates/legislation for endangered species conservation?
What is recovery planning and how does it work?
Some definitions (fill in the definitions):
Endangered –
Threatened –
Vulnerable –
Species of Special Concern –
What makes a species prone to extinction?
1. Restricted _____________ _________
2. Narrow _________ ___________ and specialized _______________
3. Small __________ _____________
4. High genetic _____________
5. Species of particular _______ ____ __________
6. Low ____________ ______________
Important legislation that affects rare, endangered, and threatened species: (the
dates are not as important as the info. you are filling in!)
1966 – __. __. __. __.
1969 – __. __. __. __.
Entered into __.__.__.__.__. this same year
- What does this acronym stand for?
- What does it do?
1973 – __. __. __.
- Condenses existing legislation ( __.__.__.__. and __.__.__.__. above) and
added the listing of species of separate populations and separate subspecies.
Species of similar appearance as a listed species were also allowed to be
listed.
1978, 1982, and 1988 – Three ______________.
Endangered Species Act
There are specific requirements for a species to be listed for protection under the ESA.
The _________________________ makes the ultimate decision of whether or not a
species is listed or not. He/she has ______________ power to cut through the red tape to
list a species that is a special case.
Criteria for listing of a species:
Before a species is completely listed as Endangered it is first a Candidate species. There
are ____ levels of candidates.
Recovery Planning
Who manages recovery planning in Florida?
What are the three components of the Triage Approach to endangered species recovery
efforts?
1.
2.
3.
Name the major incentive for private landowners to protect existing endangered species.
How is management for endangered species different than non-endangered species?