Real world issues that students can collaborate on. Pretty sweet idea if you are into this kind of thing. 

This may be the only way to see some of the animals on the endangered species list in the near future. It is a scary thought, and the fact that an exhibit of plastic is a featured exhibit at a zoo makes one really question the world we live in.

An interesting read on the label "extinct" and the potential problems with declaring an animal extinct as well as references to a statistical model that could potentially help allocate resources to the animals with a higher probability of potential change.

This is a list of animals that already are extinct or are threatened with extinction due to a variety of factors.

This is the Colorado Department of Education website devoted to service learning including a description of service learning, research articles about service learning in the classroom, and resources for further exploration of service learning concepts.

This is the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology page devoted to information on the poor, clumsy, unfortunately overexploited dodo bird.