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Have you ever been outside at night and watched a frog Or have you ever been fishing and saw a turtles head pop up In North Carolina these animals are becoming endangered along with whales bats red wolves woodpeckers flying squirrels and butterflies Spreading awareness of endangered animals in North Carolina can be a start to helping this problem Endangered animals are animals that are in danger of dying out either out in the wild or natural places such as their habitats It all started in nineteen sixty seven when the first endangered species list included over seventy two species of animals Now more than a thousand species are listed endangered all over the world In order to be listed on the endangered species list a species has to lose about seventy percent of it s population in the past ten years When Endangered animals are put on the endangered species list they are very likely to become extinct This means animals are dying out everywhere and have not been seen in the past fifty years At the rate we are going by the mid century thirty to fifty percent of all animals are heading toward extinction Animals can be added to the endangered list two different ways First the public may petition or scientists may study the species whole population if it is thought to be declining Then scientist must collect information from sources Here are some criteria used to label species endangerment
