Species+at+Risk

Species at Risk in Canada
Read //[|Species at Risk in Canada]// (published by [|Hinterland Who's Who]) and answer the following questions (use full sentences, please):
 * 1) How many species in Canada are currently classified as //at risk//?
 * 2) Since the first European settlers arrived in North America:
 * 3) how many Canadian species are to known to have become extinct?
 * 4) how many species are no longer found in Canada?
 * 5) What are the two main reasons why many species in Canada are __currently__ at risk?
 * 6) What is COSEWIC? What are they responsible for?
 * 7) What do each of the following classifications for species at risk mean?
 * 8) Extinct
 * 9) Extirpated
 * 10) Endangered
 * 11) Threatened
 * 12) Special Concern
 * 13) Why should we be concerned about species at risk? (Use the term //food web// in your answer)
 * 14) What has been done to help the recovery of the Peregrine Falcon anatum subspecies?
 * 15) What has caused the North Atlantic Right Whale to be classified as //at risk//? What was the size of the entire population in 2004? What is being done to prtect the Right Whale?
 * 16) What are two things that can be done to help species at risk?