Question

10. Human efforts have saved the ______ from extinction​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hunting, loss of habitat, egg collection, trading and other human disturbances also contributed. The population started increasing after DDT was banned in the US in 1972. Conservation work such as captive breeding programmes and large-scale protection of nesting places also helped save the species from extinction.

Answer 2

Ten animals we have saved from extinction

• Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
• Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis)
• Sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
• Fen orchid (Liparis loeselii)
• Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
• Island night lizard (Xantusia riversiana)
• Rodrigues fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
• Fisher's estuarine moth (Gortyna borelii lunata)
• Pygmy Rwandan water lily (Nymphaea thermarum)
• Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)