80.2K

Verified Solution

Link Copied!

Read this:

Cape Cod National Seashore officials have completed a draftshorebird management plan that proposes killing predators(primarily crows and coyotes) of the piping plover (a smallendangered shorebird) so that they can open more areas forrecreational users. The USDA could kill up to 50 animals in each ofthe first two years.

There are four alternative plans being proposed and The HSUS isrecommending a version of Alternative D, which is the only proposalwithout lethal predator control. In 2010 our threat of litigationhalted the planned crow poisoning and in 2011, Massachusettsresidents were so outspoken on this issue that it halted theprogram again. Now, we need to show continued opposition.

Then:

you are to look into what has been done and what is currentlybeing done to save the piping plover populations in the US, morespecifically the Eastern seashore. After your research on ploversand two other organisms, do you feel as though humans should bestepping in to reduce the predators to help maintain the ploverpopulation? Why should we help any species? If these plovers andother organisms are not going to survive without humanintervention, isn’t that evolution? Adaptation or extinction?

Background on plovers: range, habitat, reason for decline, whatis currently being done to help? Is it a success or failure?

Plovers are not the only species that humans have set out toprotect from extinction. Give information on two other organismsthat humans have stepped in to help in some way. Background: range,habitat, reason for decline, current protections/what is beingdone. Success or failure?

Your educated opinion on whether we should help preventorganisms from going extinct or not.