NASA: Helping save the Elephants, Jaguars, and Tigers

By Isa

NASA is sending satellites into space to look at the earth and see stuff that helps these animals; for example, they are helping the tigers by seeing the places the tigers are not in yet that would be good for them to live in. They are also seeing the places to protect for the jaguars that would be good habitats for them. They are finding two places that elephants live in and creating protected pathways between the two so they can have more space altogether.

Volunteer to Help Endangered Animals.

By Nikhil B

The Belle Isle Spring Cleanup is on Saturday April 27th, 9:30 to 12:30. If you want to volunteer contact Oliver B. in Stage III or Carmen. Oliver is organizing a team of volunteers to help clean up the beaches and paths on Belle Isle as a service learning project.

There is a Stage III elective called Endangered Animals. This elective is for Stage III. You might have seen the posters around the campus displaying information about how to help endangered animals.

The posters were made by Aiden, Torien, and Lucas. Aiden’s poster is about climate change, polar bears, and reduce, reuse, recycle, and replant. Lucas’s poster was about how selling rhino horns is legal in Michigan. Torien’s poster is about deforestation and how spider monkeys are effected by deforestation. Diego sent a letter to the Chinese government to stop overfishing.

why red wolves are going extinct

by willow

red wolf are a type of wolf that is going extinct here’s why

  1. mismanagement, which has to do with losing there habitat to pollution and climate change.

2. illegal killing, like for there fur and skin or decorations.

3. hybridization, which means that two different animals breed which means that if a cyote and a wolf breed the pups have there own pups

there own pups that are not wolves they are hybrid

4. population trend, red wolves are the wolf you think of when you think of a wolf, the bad thing about the population trend is that they are wanted for fur and other stuff.

not a very fun fact but still a fact: in 1980 red wolves were declared extinct in the wild

not a very fun fact but still a fact: there are 18 red wolves that are collared and in the wild there are

20-22 and safe in a habit 263

if you want you can donate to the redwolf.org

thank you!

Feared Extinct Species Of Echidna Found

By Ava K.

The Sir David long nosed echidna was feared lost was found on Cyclops Mountain in Indonesia after more than sixty years. It is named after the British biologist Sir David Attenborough. It was captured on camera by Dr Kempton, a biologist from Oxford University. On a six week journey through the Cyclops Mountains, 7,087 miles above sea level, Dr Kempton and his team battled rough terrain, blood sucking leeches, venomous animals, and malaria. On their final day of the journey during which they climbed nearly 7 miles they captured the animal with their final memory card and Dr Kempton put over 80 camera traps!

The Sir David’s echidna is an egg laying mammal said to have the spine of a hedgehog, the snout of a anteater, and the feet of a mole. When it is threatened it rolls up into a ball resembling the behavior of a hedgehog. The Sir David echidna is not a very social animal. They only come together once a year in July. They weighs 11-22 Ib. The diet of Sir David’s long-beaked echidna consists of earthworms, termites, insect larvae, and ants.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67363874

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/endangered-egg-laying-mammal-seen-first-time-60-years-rcna124670

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-find-lost-echidna-species-for-the-first-time-in-60-years-180983251/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-long-beaked-echidna-sir-david-attenborough-lost-endangered/

animal hybrids

By Jackson Z.

this is the fox dog it’s a newly discovered hybrid. It was found in Brazil after a car accident, then taken to a hospital. It seems endangered to most people that have seen this elusive creature. It was found in 2023. It has the father of a dog, but the mother of a fox. It was named the “fox dog” by the researchers who found it because they didn’t know if it was a new species or just another hybrid that this world has hidden. The fox that is known to be its mother is a silver fox. Its dad is partial Maltese.

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top 30 dog breeds

by willow

Labrador retriever, germen shepherd, golden retriever, beagle, English bulldog, Yorkshire terrier, boxer, poodle, rottweiler, dachshund, shih tzu, Doberman pinscher, miniature schnauzer, French bulldog, germen shorthaired pointer, Siberian husky, great Dane, chihuahua, Pomeranian, cavalier king Charles spaniel, Shetland sheepdog, Australian shepherd, Boston Terrier, Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Maltese, English Mastiff, Cocker Spaniel, Havanese, English Springer Spaniel, Pug, And that’s the top 30 dog breeds yeah!

Top 100 Dog Breeds Ranked by Popularity | List of Most Popular Dogs (puppiesndogs.com)

The Truth About Sharks

By Ginny S.

People think that sharks are monsters, but here’s the truth about them. Humans kill 100 million sharks per year, but sharks killing humans…???? Only between about 4 and 10 per year. Sharks like to eat seals, seagulls, and fish. One of their attacks on their prey is circle swimming (where they will swim around the prey and choose what angle they will attack their prey from if they are not doing a jump attack), close-eye inspection (where they look at their prey from below where their prey doesn’t see them and they think if they want to eat it), and jump attacks (where they go under their prey and swim straight up using their tail power and go really fast. With their prey not knowing, they quickly attack from below.