Temple University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
ENVT 0945
Honors: The Environment
Spring 2010
Final Exam
The topic of the Final Exam is species extinction, endangerment, and, perhaps, a miraculous recovery.
We have been discussing this idea via two topics.
1.
The repopulation of Floreana Island (Galapagos Archipelago) with the namesake Floreana
Mockingbird as a memorial to Charles Darwin’s 200
th
birthday which also coincides
(approximately) with the 150
th
anniversary of
On the Origin of Species
.
The Floreana
Mockingbird was identified by Darwin as the “spark” that lead to his now famous explanation of
species development and extinction.
The original population was eventually decimated by the
introduction of cats and other exotic species.
2.
Sixty years after the last confirmed sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas a possible
sighting was videotaped in 2004.
Although the existence of the “extinct” species is still under
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