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How do endangered species affect the environment?

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Endangered species can be a keystone that prevents a struggling ecosytem from collapsing, but often it affects an ecosystem primarily through its absence. read more

Absolutely. All animal and plant life is part of a complex ecosystem that also includes our lands and our waters. read more

Endangered species can be a keystone that prevents a struggling ecosytem from collapsing, but often it affects an ecosystem primarily through its absence. When numbers of keystone species fall too low (and a great many species are keystones), then there's a cascade of failures and imbalances that relate to it. read more

An endangered species is a group of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct for one or more of three reasons: destruction or interruption of environment, in other words habitat loss; an alteration in the ecological balance resulting in an increase in predators; too few remaining members for sustainable breeding. read more

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