Help with project please?????

Question

Can you give me the names of any two endangered plants???

Common names to be given...........

Please it really is urgent...........please help..................

Answer 1

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/species/plants/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_li...

Answer 2

i think cowslip is one, as people are turning farming land into houses. i hope thi is ok

Answer 3

Ford in Detroit

Chrysler in Milwaukee.

OK, so you  are in India. This is a great opportunity to examine a man made disaster.... India has a total of 89,451 animal species accounting for 7.31% of the faunal species in the world (MoEF 1997) and the flora accounts for 10.78% of the global total. The endemism of Indian biodiversity is high - about 33% of the country's recorded flora are endemic to the country and are concentrated mainly in the Northeast, Western Ghats, North-West Himalayas and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. However, this rich biodiversity of India is under severe threat owing to habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation and over-exploitation of resources.

According to the Red List of Threatened Animals (IUCN. 2000), 44 plant species are critically endangered, 113 endangered and 87 vulnerable. Amongst animals, 18 are critically endangered, 54 endangered and 143 are vulnerable. Ten species are Lower Risk conservation dependent, while 99 are Lower Risk near threatened. India ranks second in terms of the number of threatened mammals, while India is sixth in terms of countries with the most threatened birds (IUCN. 2000).

Introduction of non-native species (also known as "alien" or "exotic" species), deliberately or accidentally, has been a major threat to biological diversity worldwide as the introduced species have often flourished at the cost of the local species. India's Biodiversity, too, has been affected by introduction of alien species. Several exotic animals and plants introduced in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are posing a threat to the local species of fauna and flora. Animal husbandry, an occupation of majority of Indian farmers, is directly dependent upon grassland for sustenance and it contributes a significant 5 to 6% towards India's national income. The Tsunami of 2005 of course immediately put many of these on the threatened list....

But let us look at one area and one specific problem. Human induced, yet well meant. The Banni area, as the name signifies, is a 'Banni h*i' (in Hindi) meaning made up land formed by the detritus brought down and deposited predominantly by the Indus river, which was reported to flow through the Great Rann in the past. The great and the little ranns of Kachchh were the old arms of the sea in the old geological period. Due to the eruption and formation of the Allah Bund near the Kori Creek, the lands in the Great and Little ranns got blocked up and were filled up by the deposits brought down by the Indus river (Source: Notes from Animal Husbandry of Agriculture, Gujarat). Once upon a time Banni was considered the largest grassland of its kind in Asia, but has fallen upon sad times in the last decade. The Banni area under the present investigation extends over Bhuj and Nakhtrana Talukas of Kachchh Districts. It is situated on the northern border of Kachchh mainland, consisting of 45 villages. The actual area lies between North latitudes of 23o19' and 23o52' N and East longitudes of 68o56' to 70o32' E. Vegetation comprises of grassland, shrubs and legumes found naturally in the Banni area. Normally the area is covered with coarse and low perennial grasses and other non-grass species present in Banni area are as follows (Source : Banni Development Office, Bhuj, Kachchh).

1. Dichanthium-annulatum, (Forsk) Stapf

2. Sporobolus helvolus (Trin) Thw.

3. Chloris barbate, SW.

4. Cenchrus biflorus, Roxb.

5. Eleusine bianata

6. Elysecarpus rugosus (legume), Wall

7. Heylandis latebrosa (legume), DC

8. Digitarea sanguinalis, Scop. Var Ciliaris Prain

9. Crotolaria medicaginea, Lam.

10. Indigofera sps. (Legume), Linn.

11. Sida sps. (Malvaceaa) L.

12. Malanocenchrus jacquemontii, J&S

13. Sporobolus diander (Retz) P. Beauv

14. Cenchrus setigerus, vahl

15. Aristida adscensionis, L

16. Aristida funiculata, Trin & Rupr

17. Setaria rhachitricho, Cook

18. Eragrostis minor and major, Host.

19. Eragrostis trimula, Hochst.

20. Cyprus rotundus, Linn(dupareate form)

21. Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf

22. Cyperus rotundus, Linn

23. Cressa cretica (Convovulaceae), Linn

24. Eragrostis bulbosa

25. Kochia sps. (Polygonaceae), Roth

26. Suaeda fruticosa

Out of the above 26 grass species first 12 species are palatable and rest of them are salt-tolerant grasses. Banni area deterioration is linked to the increasing salinity ingress, impoverishment and illiteracy of its inhabitants, a growing human and livestock population, and invasion of prosopis juliflora, which offers quick fuelwood, but its proliferation is dangerous for the grassland, over grazing and improper management of the land.