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__**Chapter 9: Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach**__

**1. Blue Buck- Eaten by settlers, habitat was converted to agriculture, competition with sheep, and hunting with firearms caused the animals' extinction.** **It was hunted for its skin and its meat was fed to the settlers' dogs.**

**Red Rail- Hunted by by the Dutch and French to extinction and pigs also ate their eggs. It was hunted to use as meat because it was considered a good substitute for pork.**

**Quagga- Hunted for meat, hides, and to preserve food for stocks.**

**2. Farmers**

**3. The Niger border was high-alert for the Bird flu.**

**4. The Hakea plant can overpopulate an area and make it very weedy.**
 * Scorpions have populated the area and they are known to attack the citizens and inject them with their deadly venom.**


 * 5. 1.26% of the 96,970 sq km is totally protected. Poachers have begun to kill the remaining West African Giraffes and killed two babies at a zoo.**


 * 6. The World Wildlife Fund, National Park of Niger, the Human Society of the United States, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature is helping.**