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AP Project: Endangered Species Solutions Now and Beyond: Our future is…

- - - - No- bags compaign initiated. "During its 2008 session, the New York State Legislature passed legislation requiring the “reduction, reuse, and recycling” of checkout bags."
        
        taken measures to limit or ban the use of throwaway plastic bags
      - 100,000 mammals and birds die from them each year, felled by the estimated 500 billion and more plastic bags that are produced and consumed around the world
      - plastics industry argues that jobs will disappear—and the industry employs some two million workers, at least in good times—if the trade in plastic bags is reduced
    - - California's ban took effect in 2016, according to The Associated Press. It bans all single-use bags at large retailers and imposes a 10-cent charge for paper bags, according to the study.
    - - published in Marine Pollution Bulletin cited plastics as accounting for one third of leatherback sea turtle deaths
      - The turtles mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish due to the similar appearance and movements and subsequently ingest them.
      - 94% of fulmars had plastics in their stomachs. Additionally, monk seals and even sperm whales have been known to swallow the bags and suffocate, drown or starve as a result.
- - - - Thousand registered nonprofit organization have been targeted to preserve wildlife. However, "there are no empirical measures of these environmental groups on endangered species, and only the expenditures of the largest group, the Nature Conservancy, have been documented" (86)
- - - - Economic Response: "Recently, the emphasis of policy regarding water pollution has shifted towards environmental management, using incentives, cost- effective strategies and improved performance to achieve sustainability. (8)
      - Social Response: "Public participation in water resources protection is slowly gaining attention and is usually favored by a decentralised approach based on regional units". (8)
  - - - Urbanization endangersspecies by replacing habitat directly and by depletingresources needed to support urban economies (596)
      - Sixty-one species are endangered in Califor-nia, 64 in Florida, and 26 in Texas—three of the mostrapidly urbanizing states.(596)