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Annotated Bibliography

Are Sea Turtles Worth Saving? Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire,

www.bonaireturtles.org/wp/explore/are-sea-turtles-worth-saving/. Accessed 18 May 2017.

Barkham, Patrick. Elephants may soon suffer the same fate as their ancestors.

Newsela | Elephants may soon suffer the same fate as their ancestors, 22 Aug. 2016,

newsela.com/articles/elephants-last-megaherbivores/id/20712/. Accessed 17 May 2017.

Patrick Barkham is a natural history writer and former writer for The Times. This article

has been adapted by Newsela and is about the declining numbers in the population due to

humans. Hunters and poachers have been killing different species of elephants for years. Patrick

Barkham also writes about how elephant species from the past, such as the pygmy elephant, have

gone extinct due to hunting. The population decline is not only due to hunters, but there are also

recently built homes and buildings that have blocked off trails that elephants are known to breed

and feed upon. Barkham explains how elephants

are crucial to certain ecosystems because they spread seeds to grow more plants, so ultimately,

we need to preserve the elephant population.

Carrington, Damian. Extinction a threat for 1 in 5 plant species. Newsela | Extinction a threat

for 1 in 5 plant species, newsela.com/articles/plants-extinct/id/17595/. Accessed 18 May

2017.

Head of environment at The Guardian, Damian Carrington has written articles about

nature and the environment wrote this article about the importance of preserving plants because,
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Without plants we would not be here. Newsela has adapted this article in which Carrington

explains how the human race would function without plants. Farming and deforestation are two

of the major reasons for possible extinction of certain plant species. Without plants the human

race would simply be incapable of operating due to the loss of food and medicine that would

vanish right along with the plants. Humans must stop deforestation or there may be important

plant species that go extinct which could result in major consequences.

Dehghan, Saeed Kamali. Fastest animal on Earth, the Asiatic cheetah, is racing against

extinction. Newsela | Fastest animal on Earth, the Asiatic cheetah, is racing against

extinction, newsela.com/articles/asiatic-cheetahs-iran/id/21281/. Accessed 18 May 2017.

Saeed Kamali Dehghan, an Iranian-British journalist, was named British journalist of the

year at the Foreign Press Association in 2010. He writes for a website called The Guardian, and

some of his work is adapted by Newsela. Saeed discusses the issue of the Asiatic cheetah nearing

extinction, an animal native to his birthplace. He informs the reader of the very small amount of

cheetahs alive in the wild and states that there are believed to be as little as 40 remaining in Iran.

Saeed Dehghan then proceeds to give reasons for the drop in population and many of the deaths

have been caused by farmers, hunters, and car accidents. Dehghan also tells about the efforts of

some people to step up in order to help the cheetahs and he writes about different ways to

prevent extinction.

Fanning, Karen. Why We Care. Why We Care | Scholastic.Com,

www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=10697. Accessed 18 May 2017.

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Karen Fanning, a writer for Scholastic News, wrote this article about why the human race

should care about the increased rate of extinction among different species. Fanning writes about

how the occurrence of natural extinction isnt a bad thing, the problem is just that people are

hunting and poaching animals which is causing extinction at a more rapid pace. The extinction of

a species can drastically affect the food chain and by killing off species, we are potentially

harming ourselves. Karen Fanning lists a few of the reasons why we should care and we should

listen before we start to negatively affect ourselves and the environment.

Roy, Eleanor Ainge. New Zealand's mountain-Dwelling kea parrot is in danger of extinction.

Newsela | New Zealand's mountain-Dwelling kea parrot is in danger of extinction,

newsela.com/articles/kea-extinction/id/21934/. Accessed 18 May 2017.

Eleanor Ainge Roy, a writer and journalist from Dunedin, New Zealand, writes articles

for different websites and New Zealand newspapers such as, The Guardian. This article was

adapted by Newsela staff. In this article she uses information about the kea parrot to solidify the

idea that we should take better care of the environment and the inhabitants. She consistently uses

facts and statistics to illustrate the decline in population of the kea parrot. Eleanor Ainge Roy

describes threats that the kea parrots face and solutions to how the people of New Zealand can

stop the imminent extinction of the birds. Roys well written article provides insight into saving

the kea parrot and educates the reader about threats the birds face.

Save the Animals Quotes. Save the Animals Quotes | Quote Addicts,

quoteaddicts.com/topic/save-the-animals-quotes/. Accessed 18 May 2017.

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Tiger. WWF, World Wildlife Fund, www.worldwildlife.org/species/tiger. Accessed 18 May 2017.