Check out these endangered species of animals images:
California Condor
Image by Martin LaBar
This is not a good photo, but the subject is important. This is as close as I got to a California
condor during this year. If you want to see a better view of one of these birds, click on the Condor Tag at the right. During this time when my family was near it, at the San Diego zoo's Wild Animal Park, it didn't fly any closer, or turn its head toward me. California
condors are on the brink of extinction. Heroic efforts are being taken so that
they don't become extinct. Some condors have now been released into the wild, and have reproduced.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and
over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (ESV)
Part of God's charge to humans was to take care of other creatures, which is
often referred to as stewardship. Although we must have other priorities, part
of our job is to try to keep other types of living things alive.
Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
Image by cliff1066™
Green iguanas are diurnal and arboreal and often found near water. Agile climbers, iguanas can fall up to 50 feet and land unhurt (iguanas use their hind leg claws to "hook" leaves, branches, or anything in a "clasping" motion to break a fall). During cold, wet weather, Green iguanas prefer to stay on the ground for greater warmth. When swimming an iguana remains submerged and lets its four legs hang limply against its side and propels itself through the water with powerful tail strokes. Because of the Green iguana's popularity in the pet trade and as a food source in Latin America, they are listed on the CITES Appendix II, which means that while they are not an endangered species, "their trade must be controlled so as to not harm the species in the future".
