Endangered Animals

Are Endangered Animals an Issue? There are around 41,000 endangered species, and around 16,000 of them are on the edge of extinction. There are many reasons for animals to go endangered, such as habitat loss, pollution, disease, predation, illegal killing, and poaching. Habitat loss happens by a mixture of things logging, agriculture, the building of roads and cities, and forest fires. Habitat loss affects China’s giant panda because of the expanding buildings in China. Pollution is affecting fish in lakes and streams because of acid rain. “Acid rains kill fish in lakes and streams by increasing the acidity of water” (Haluzan 2012). Poaching is killing rhinoceros by people killing them for their horns, to use as a dagger handle, or to be put in medicine. There are more animals being affected by these conditions, and these aren’t the only conditions animals on the endangered list are facing. Like global warming, some people believe that its killing animals and some believe it doesn’t exist. A lot of people don’t realize how many animals are endangered, and people are the biggest cause of this. People are harming animals and making them endangered because of factories, cars, trucks, planes, and other things that put chemicals into the air that cause acid rain and other pollutions. Oil spills, boats, yachts, cargo ships, and things like that are affecting our ocean life, making some of the fish and animals that live in the water endangered as well. People are one of the main affects to endangered animals. There are multiple organizations that help support endangered animals and making people realize how bad we are destroying wildlife. WWF is a major organization that helps with this issue. They have pages on their website that show you the threats that are killing animals. WWF also raises money to put towards helping animals. They raise money a lot of different ways, but their most popular way is symbolically adopting an animal. Another organization is Nature

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