What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

Question

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

Answer 1

You set aside large conservation areas that are suitable habitat for the endangered species and manage the land to promote the success of the plant.

This is the case (sort of) for the karner blue butterfly (endangered) and wild lupine (not endangered but rare because of habitat loss and land use changes).  To solve this problem, many states set aside conservation prairies and initiate a prescribed burn cycle, which encourages wild lupine.

Answer 2

To me, it depends on whether the species in question are endangered due to 'natural causes'--due to no human interference (which is not likely), or due to something we did.  If the endangerment is natural, then we should do nothing.  But if it's due to destruction of habitat, introduction of harmful unbalanced predation, overgrazing, etc., it's a whole other story.  If we screwed them up then we are obligated to try to correct the situation.  I'm no expert on how to do this, so refer to Phil on that part and give me just a tiny part of the credit. Haha!

Answer 3

It's probably endangered because it only eats endangered plants.  Anything you do could be dangerous.

Answer 4

I will try to increase the population of the endangerd plant,