Endangered Species Condoms Handed Out New Year's Eve To Raise Awareness Of Overpopulation (PHOTOS)

This New Year's Eve, more than 600 volunteers for the Center for Biological Diversity will be handing out Endangered Species Condoms in order to increase awareness about the destructive repercussions of overpopulation and overconsumption on both endangered species and their habitats.

The world's population has nearly doubled since the celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970. At 6.8 billion people, the human race is the most populous large mammal that has ever existed. Not only is providing for so many people putting a strain on the earth's finite resources, but it's also making it much more difficult for endangered plants and animals to survive. With humans using 50 percent of the earth's fresh water and 50 percent of the earth's land mass, many species are simply running out of places to live.

Because New Year's Eve is one of the most popular days of the year for condom use, 50,000 of the Endangered Species Condoms were sent to volunteers to hand out this Friday. There are six different packages, all containing original artwork and slogans. All six species featured on the condoms are listed as threatened or endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Do you think the condoms are a great idea, or too over the top? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and learn more about the Center for Biological Diversity's campaign by clicking here.

(Photos/captions provided by the Center for Biological Diversity)

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This one isn't for me. I love this design!

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[StAlphonso]

08:30 AM on 01/05/2011

"Save The Panda...
...Just Use Your Handa"

[Lance Manling]

09:10 PM on 01/01/2011

The doom and gloom crowd are back to the overpopulation thing again.

[homo-superior]

11:53 AM on 01/02/2011

i guess its better to remain happy and ignorant

[Lance Manling]

12:54 PM on 01/02/2011

It is. After all accord to Ehrlich, aren't we suppose to be all dead by now? I am sure there was a good reason why his predictions did not come to fruition (like he was incorrect).

[Les Knight]

08:37 PM on 01/01/2011

"Do you think the condoms are a great idea, or too over the top?"
They're a great idea and I thought that's where they're supposed to go.

[liberalluke]

06:24 PM on 01/01/2011

Smells fishy to me.

[birdlady5]

03:38 PM on 01/01/2011

LOL! What a hilarious idea!

[Guitarsandmore]

02:05 PM on 01/01/2011

Overpopulation is NOT the only problem but overpopulation makes all of the other problems much much worse and much much faster. If one person drives around in a smoky old car not much impact will occur. When 8 billion people drive around in a smoky old car it's a freakin disaster for the environment and for mankind.

Religions that promote having many children, not using birth control, and oh by the way making abortion a crime, are doing a tremendous disservice to the planet and the people.

Our Capitalistic system that depends on growth to sustain the economy is doomed to fail the needs of the people and should be eliminated.

[Chaucea]

12:12 PM on 01/01/2011

"Overpopul­ation is the ONLY problem," said Dr. Charles A. Hall, a systems ecologist. "If we had 100 million people on Earth - or better, 10 million - no others would be a problem."

[AnthropologistAmongApes]

01:48 PM on 01/01/2011

Levels of consumption and lack of related mitigation are at least, perhaps more significant to ecological harm on a planetary scale. Material indulgence is symptomatic of a population with existential problems; to suggest that amassing material wealth is feasible if only our population were lower misses the mark by many miles. One need only compare the most advanced minds who ever existed and their richest counterparts to see what mode of being is the greater achievement. That difference indicts the material minded, and points the way to an existence founded on the relief of one's own ignorance. From there human potential will undoubtedly surprise us.

[lrobb]

05:19 PM on 01/01/2011

One has to ask your yearly income. It is either over a million or at poverty level. Everyone else understands upward mobility and its positive effects on a country's economy.

Without it every single citizen would be living in the dark ages.

[Phil Leon]

10:03 AM on 01/01/2011

Can you frame them and hang them in your home as art?

[junglkitty]

08:27 PM on 01/12/2011

If you like the art on the Center's condom project, I'm one of the artists that made the paintings...so thank you!

You can check our charitable print project that raises money for endangered species at http://endangerededspeciesprintproject.com --- and you can definitely hang these on the walls! (Not to mention 100% of the profits go to conservation!)

[teasly]

09:34 AM on 01/01/2011

"with humans using 50% of the earths fresh water" Interesting statement, do we use 50% of the earths fresh water every year? if so shouldn't we have run out by now? What do we do with it? where does it go? Does the earth contain less water than it did 10,000 years ago? It seems that if we are using up our water, that would be a more immediate problem than global warming. I think a U.N. study is in order. Or this could be more B as in B, S as in S. Are you afraid yet?

[Phil Leon]

10:05 AM on 01/01/2011

The water never went anywhere.
It goes down the drain, into lakes and oceans, evaporates and falls back as rain.
There is no shortage of water.

[Josie Burton]

02:21 PM on 01/01/2011

There is a shortage of CLEAN water. This refers to freshwater, the kind we drink, bathe in, cook with, etc. The water cycle does clean our water, but we have monumentally trashed the rivers, oceans, and watersheds that provide those cleaning services. And the millions of other species that live in those habitats are struggling to maintain a foothold.

[lrobb]

05:22 PM on 01/01/2011

Even ingested water is recycled--every time we flush.

[cattuslavandula]

08:07 AM on 01/01/2011

endangered species condoms-awsome or absurd?

am i the only one who read the hp teaser for this article and thought 'why in the world would anyone want to put condoms on endangered species, when we want them to reproduce'?

[EcoCatLady]

01:07 PM on 01/01/2011

OK... now I can't stop giggling...

[Cacey]

06:25 AM on 01/01/2011

Are their any endangered whales? 

[Josie Burton]

02:21 PM on 01/01/2011

Yes, all of them.

[Grandma Koolfinger]

05:17 AM on 01/01/2011

I am hoping against hope itself that this was a New Year April Fool's story. But my hopes have been dashed as is often the case. I wonder how many of these cuddlies with be killed by having their condoms installed or will kill, not wanting to have their condoms installed?

"The world ain't gone crazy, it was born that way." -Roger Clyne

[WaterCloset]

02:21 AM on 01/01/2011

For the spotted owl: "Put the raps on your toot and save a spotted owl's hoot!"

got more...

"Cover your little man, and save a toucan."
For the ladies... "Stick in that diaphragm, and save a orangutan"

[ColoradoCool]

03:31 AM on 01/01/2011

Niiiiiiice... Fanned!

[garystartswithg]

02:18 AM on 01/01/2011

People can live with animals -- really they can. I don't get the either/or mentality. If we did a better job realizing that we aren't the only thing on the planet and learned to share it would help.

[ColoradoCool]

03:35 AM on 01/01/2011

There are now NINE BILLION of us on this fragile little spaceship Planet Earth. Where, pray tell, do you think the limit is?

We are in the middle of one of the greatest mass extinctions the earth has ever known and it's due to human activities! They're still eating BUSH MEAT in Africa because the people are HUNGRY!

You need to get a clue.

[EcoCatLady]

01:08 PM on 01/01/2011

Agreed, but where do you get the 9 billion figure? Last I heard it was closer to 6.8

[Tumunzahar]

12:53 AM on 01/01/2011

Who doesn't want to be reminded of species extinction when they're getting ready to screw? Maybe custom condoms with pictures of grandma on them will be next.

[ColoradoCool]

03:37 AM on 01/01/2011

Sure. If it works, it's worth a try.

Maybe if you along with the rest of the men on Planet Earth did some thinking with your larger head for a change, the planet and its animals might have a chance.

[Deaninphilly]

07:06 AM on 01/01/2011

Yes because they were going into the bedroom or wherever handing them to you as you in the act. Really?