what has led to animals and species of the desert going extinct or endangered?
I need to know what has happened in history that led to the extinction or endangered species or animals of the desert. You might want to go to the US list of endangered and threatened species (link below) and pick some desert species, then Google them. http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ed20c98ce2fbabdc4853945a53271b1e&rgn=div8&view=text&node=50:2.0.1.1.1.2.1.1&idno=50 Addax: motorized hunting, pastoral agriculture, drought (http://www.animalinfo.org/species/artiperi/addanaso.htm) African wild ass: domestication and interbreeding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_ass) Desert bandicoot: Altered burning regimes and invasive species. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Bandicoot) Mexican bobcat: Development and other habitat destruction, trapping and shooting (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Mexican_bobcat/) San Joaquin kit fox: Agricultural and residential development, depletion of groundcover due to livestock grazing, habitat fragmentat
