extinction

Simply put, save a unique species of any kind from complete extinction.

I recently got back from a trip to Poland. Lovely country. Saw a lot of the famous places: Krakow Old Town, Muskau Park, and Białowieża Forest. While I was in Białowieża Forest, I saw an Aurochs up close. Seeing one in the flesh reminded me that they'd almost gone extinct once upon a time. But...

The giant panda's population started to decline rapidly in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, and the population boom in China after 1949 created stress on the pandas' habitat and the subsequent famines led to the increased hunting of wildlife, including pandas...

The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) was a species of locust that ranged through the western half of the United States and some western portions of Canada until the end of the 19th century. It was a massive pest, and one swarm was estimated to be as long as 198,000 square miles...

Sunset of Austria Mary of Burgundy On September 2, 1481, Mary of Burgundy would give birth to another daughter named Isabella. On 1482, a falcon hunt in the woods near Wijnendale Castle was organised by Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein, who lived in the castle. Mary loved riding and was...

I would assume that serious efforts at creating protected nesting zones prior to 1879 or so would be needed along with actual state and fedral enforcment of such proctected zones(akin to what occured with American Bison in yellowstone, after sympathy for them developed of course). Of course as...