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Many animals throughout the world are becoming endangered, extirpates and/or going extinct everyday. Most of these problems are due to forest clearing, and other human disturbances. On the reverse side of this there are many things that we can do to help animals to protect them from becoming extinct.
Humans wreck animals habitats without even thinking twice about doing so. We cut down tress and hunt like nothing is happening because of it, when in reality we are killing off species faster than we can save them. You may only do a little bit in the big picture, but together all our small actions add up to one big problem. 35-150 species become extinct everyday due to human disturbances.
Most of the time we as human beings don’t even notice the species going extinct. Usually it’s plants and insects going extinct. Generally, we don’t care that animals are going extinct because of us and the way we choose to live, with all our demands in everyday life, but animals are important for our world. If we kill off all wolves then rabbits will over-populate and if rabbits over-populate then vegetation suffers. Extinction of one animal can throw off the entire balance of things
Humans can help control the rate of species becoming extinct by intervening. The best way to intervene and protect these species is to preserve their habitats. Animal preserves allow species to live in their natural surroundings. Captive breeding is another way to protect species from going extinct. Captive breeding is the process of breeding species in human controlled environments with restricted settings, such as zoos or animal preserves. Another way to keep animals from going extinct is having “protected species” this prohibits people from killing off any of these animals and if they do they get charged. We have this so that we can intervene and help protect them before people end up killing them all off.
In conclusion, many animals become extinct or extirpated everyday due to human disturbances to their environments. There are a number of things that we can do with the resources that we have.
References:
http://forests.org/archive/general/coolfact.htm, used Feb 21st
http://animals.about.com/od/wildlifeconservation/tp/helping_endangered_species.htm, used Feb 21st
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ReplyDeleteNicely done. Your post is well structured with an introduction paragraph, 2 body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. I liked how you referenced your information to show where the basis of your ideas came from. Your structure is clear and easy to understand from a reader’s point of view. Your post provides many points that are good and that get down to the details. In your post I like how you took both sides of the topic and talked about the positive and negatives of human intervention. This topic really makes you think about the way we live on a day to day basis. With our actions we have taken will we be the one’s regretting our decisions down the road? Because if 35-150 species become extinct everyday due to human disturbances, when will the time come when were the species on the edge of extinction? Also our actions to help control the rate of species becoming extinct by preserving their habitats become questionable in the future. Because what will happen in the future if our society is in a demanding need for products (like wood or paper)? The only way to make these products is to cut down trees, these trees that are home to many species, that will probably once again become extinct after all the hard work in trying to protect them. For next time I would recommend adding more personal connections. Overall you have answered the question with great detail.
Excellent job!!!!