Endagered Species

Question 0

Who prohibited trade in 1975?

Answer 0

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

Question 1

What are the key dates for crocodilian harvest?

Answer 1

1800 - large scale commercial harvest began the dropped
1860 - demand rose in the South
1930 - crocodile fashion hit Europe
1960 - declines in numbers made wild harvest unprofitable

Question 2

Who removed alligators from the endangered species list in 1987?

Answer 2

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)

Question 3

What countries harvest crocodilians through management programmes?

Answer 3

USA, Zimbabwe and Papa New Guinea

Question 4

What are whales caught for?

Answer 4

Ambergris, liver, baleen, bone, oil, meat and other organs

Question 5

When and why was the IWC (international whaling commission) established?

Answer 5

In 1946 to provide for the proper conservation of whales stocks and this make possible orderly development of the whaling industry

Question 6

What rules were added in 1986?

Answer 6

1. Zero catch limits for commercial whaling

2. Catch limits for aboriginal subsistence whaling and special permits for scientific whaling

Question 7

Aboriginal subsistence whaling is permitted for which countries?

Answer 7

Denmark, Russia, St Vincent, Grenadines and the USA

Question 8

Article VIII stated what?

Answer 8

Government may grant a special permit to any nationals authorising the kill, take and treatment of whales for purposes of scientific research

Question 9

How many whales are critically endangered and endangered?

Answer 9

2 and 7

Question 10

What are turtles harvested for?

Answer 10

Jewellery, accessories, meat and turtle soup

Question 11

What are two main areas of huge turtle declines?

Answer 11

Cayman Islands and Nicaraguya

Question 12

What percentage have green turtles declined by in the Caribbean?

Answer 12

99.67%

Question 13

What percentage have Hawksbill turtles declined by in the Caribbean?

Answer 13

99.83%

Question 14

ICRW

Answer 14

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

Question 15

What 2 species if cetacean are critically endangered?

Answer 15

River dolphin and Vaquita

Question 16

What 7 species of cetacean are endangered?

Answer 16

Sri, Blue, Fin, North Atlantic Right, North Pacific Right and 2 river dolphins

Question 17

What two populations of whale crashed?

Answer 17

Antarctic humpback and North Pacific Right Whales

Question 18

What other species or marine animals or endangered?

Answer 18

North Sea Cod, Bluefin Tuna and Basking Sharks

Question 19

What three countries produced millions of alligator and caiman skins?

Answer 19

Louisiana, Brazil and Colombia

Question 20

The debate sits between who?

Answer 20

Norway, Iceland and Japan against greenpeace and sea shepherd

Question 21

Which two countries have released recent special permits to hunt whales?

Answer 21

Japan and Iceland

Question 22

What does RMP stand for?

Answer 22

Revised Management Procedure

Question 23

What’s is the RMP?

Answer 23

Computerised formula for determining allowable catches of some whale species

Question 24

What whale is thought to have a large enough population number to theoretically hunt then sustainably?

Answer 24

Minke