select any three examples of both dangered and endangered species and write about them
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When my 17 year-old son heard high schools would be all remote this year he told me he felt cheated. As a junior in the Rochester City School District (RCSD), he is worried he will finish high school unprepared for college.
Remote learning has been a poor substitute for in-person instruction. Live instruction time is very limited during the week, and there has not been the same consistent support for his disability. More than that he misses his friends, and school is one of the few safe places he can go in our neighborhood.
In-person instruction is vitally important for the over 100,000 school-aged children in Monroe County. Many children in our community have fallen dangerously behind in their academic and social-emotional development. Safety comes first for students, parents, and teachers, but if there is way to reopen schools safely we must do it as soon as possible.
Our community’s child care system has largely remained open during the pandemic and has avoided widespread transmission among young children and their educators. This suggests that, with proper precautions and limited group sizes, young children can safely receive in-person instruction.
The disparities in who has access to in-person instruction may deepen existing educational inequities in our community. Every district in Monroe County except RCSD intends to offer at least two days of in-person instruction for all grade levels, and some as much as five days for elementary students. The conflicting guidelines only adds to the distrust and anxiety of many parents, teachers, and students.
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Broad and conflicting guidelines for reopening schools by national and state leaders have put the responsibility on school districts to completely redesign their operations in a matter of weeks.
Meanwhile, national and state governments have not fully funded the costs of reopening safely. School districts are approaching reopening in widely different ways as a result, with underfunded and highly segregated school districts like Rochester being the least able to adapt.
What we need is a gold standard for in-person and virtual instruction that emphasizes equity during the pandemic. To ensure these standards are implemented, state and federal leaders must provide the funding schools so desperately need. Standards for safety should be clear and widely understood, and parents and teachers deserve choices about virtual versus in-person instruction.
Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
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Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
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Richard Pallardy
Richard Pallardy received a B.A. in English from Illinois State University in 2005. He was a research editor with Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and worked on Britannica Blog from 2010...

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They’re known as “charismatic megafauna” for a reason. These endangered animals ooze star power, a factor that conservationists have capitalized on in order to fund projects to protect them (and, often by default, the other organisms that share their complex ecosystems). People are far more likely to donate money to save an adorable panda or a magnificent tiger than they are to drop some shekels on preserving the limbless worm skink or the Gerlach’s cockroach. However, skinks and roaches are integral participants in their ecosystems as well and just as deserving of assistance as their flashier compatriots. You might then consider the animals on this list the A-listers whose box office draw finances the continued existence of the lesser-known character actors who inhabit the same environments. And if the concept of trickle-down conservation sticks in your craw, get to work on that “save the Gerlach’s cockroach” Kickstarter campaign. I’d donate. Maybe.
giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
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Everyone loves a panda…they might be the kitschiest animal humanity has driven to the brink of extinction yet. From stuffed animals to martial arts-trained CGI abominations, we just can’t seem to get enough of the bi-colored beasts. Though their “aww factor” may verge on the cloying, it hasn’t been without effect. China, which is home to the remaining wild population of fewer than 2,500 individuals, has since the late 1980s instituted more stringent habitat protections and poaching has all but ceased. Their status is still tenuous, though. Their range is fragmented and they are still subject to disease, occasional predation, and starvation when large swathes of the bamboo on which they feed completes its life cycle and dies.
tiger (Panthera tigris)

Siberian tiger
Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, Wiltshire, England.
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William Blake’s “forests of the night,” the stalking grounds of the six subspecies of tiger, are burning bright. Slash-and-burn agriculture, along with logging, and human encroachment, have hugely diminished the habitat available to these felines, which require extensive ranges capable of supporting the large herbivores that constitute the bulk of their diets. Poaching—for trophies and body parts used in Asian “medicine” —is thought to pose the greatest threat to tigers. Probably fewer than 4,000 are left in the wild. In 2014, China explicitly outlawed the consumption of endangered species, including tigers, whose bones, penises, and other organs are superstitiously believed to have magical curative powers.
whooping crane (Grus americana)

whooping crane
Whooping cranes (Grus americana) at the International Crane Foundation (ICF) in Baraboo, Wisconsin, U.S.
International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI.
In 1938, the first year a population survey was conducted, only 29 whooping cranes remained in the wild. Three years later, only 16 were left. Hunting and reduction of their wetland habitat had vitiated the population and concerted efforts to salvage remnant birds did not being until the late 1960s. Today, there are over 400 birds, thanks in large part to innovative breeding programs. Though a plan that involved transferring whooping crane eggs to the nests of related sandhill cranes for fostering ultimately failed, captive rearing and reintroduction have established two wild populations in Florida, one of which has been taught to migrate to Wisconsin. Neither is self-sustaining. The only self-sustaining population migrates between Alberta, Canada, and Texas, U.S.
blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)

blue whale
Whale-watching boat alongside a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Adult blue whales can grow to lengths of more than 30 metres (98 feet).
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There are fewer than 25,000 blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. Comprising several subspecies, blue whales are found in all of the world’s oceans save the Arctic. The current population is thought to have been reduced by up to 90% by whaling in the 20th century. Commercial hunting of the species was ultimately banned in 1966. The National Marine Fisheries Service of the U.S. spelled out a recovery plan in 1998. It stipulated the maintenance of photo databases of individual specimens and the collection of genetic and migration data in order to better understand the species, which remains at risk from ship collisions and entanglement in fishing nets.