1. Biological Diversity

2. The Most Vulnerable Microendemics Relic species Species with small populations Slow reproducers Species that have evolved in isolation

3. Species Protection Endangered Species Act 1973 –Endangered Species –Threatened Species What is the broader problem?

4. Carroll Country Stippled Studfish Fundulus bifax - Endangered Restricted distribution and are extremely rare. Habitat loss due to dam and reservoir construction, habitat degradation, and poor water quality.

5. Carroll County White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia – Threatened

6. Carroll Country Piedmont barren strawberry Waldsteinia lobata - threatened

7. Georgia Red-cockaded woodpecker Picoides borealis - Endangered

8. Georgia Eastern indigo snake Drymarchon corais couperi - Threatened

9. Georgia Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus - Threatened

10. Zoos 1860 – Central Park Zoo 1970s conservation movement

11. Conservation Movement Conservation Programs focus on open space Integrated Conservation-Development Projects

12. Landscape Ecology Subfield of Geography SLOSS Importance of corridors

13. Barriers

14. Fragmentation