Species in danger:

“Despite its rugged image, the grizzly bear is more vulnerable to industrial development and other human activity than any other wildlife species in the northern Rockies. Roughly 1,500 grizzlies now inhabit the lower 48 states, down from as many as 100,000 in the early 1800s.”

http://www.savebiogems.org/bears/

Bees are a critical agricultural resource that help produce $15 billion worth of crops in the United States each year. The recent unexplained mass disappearance of honey bees, called colony collapse disorder, poses a significant threat to honey bees, beekeepers, farmers and our food supply. Most bee experts believe bees could be falling sick due to a combination of factors, including pesticide exposure, invasive parasitic mites, an inadequate food supply and a new virus that targets bees' immune systems.

http://www.nrdcaction.org/learnmore/072408.html

What is being done to help:

Endangered Species Day is May 21st, 2010; find out how you can get involved.

Check out the success stories of species of animals that have been removed from the Endangered Species list or have seen a great improvement in their populations thanks to the good work of their supporters.

Further Resources
(check your local library for availability):

Documentaries:

• Winged Migration
• Food, Inc.
• Planet Earth
• The Future of Food

Books:

• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Learning from Animals? Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness edited by Louise S. Röska-Hardy and Eva M. Neumann-Held
• Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Extras:

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:7-10