Endangered Animals Humans are destructive. Not a lot of us think about how what we do affects the world around us. We almost act like we are the only ones on this planet. We go around polluting and destroying our world with no regard for our actions. The things that live out in the wild are paying the price for it. Every day that passes there is another animal or plant that is placed on an endangered list. This is happening at an alarming rate. Because of man’s desire to expand and conquer their
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Tigers are mostly solitary‚ apart from associations between mother and offspring. Individual tigers have a large territory and the size is determined mostly by the availability of prey. Although individuals do not patrol their territories‚ they visit over a period of days or weeks and mark their territory with urine and feces. Across their range‚ tigers face unrelenting pressure from poaching‚ retaliatory killings and habitat loss. They are forced to compete for space with dense and often growing human
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strikes off the north-eastern seaboard of the US do not augur well for the species. Fewer than 350 animals Western Pacific grey whale. The most endangered of all great whales‚ and a potential victim of oil and gas exploitation off Sakhalin Island on the far east of Russia. Likely oil spills threaten the habitat of a population of as few as 120 individuals. The death of just three females could mean the extinction of the species. Fewer than 120 animals Bowhead. Once known as the common or Greenland
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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
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Be Placed on the Endangered Species List? Larry T. Johnson Ms. Diane Lee LSTD3333 Friday‚ March 12‚ 2010 . We have developed the blood bank‚ created the automatic traffic signal and invented the gas mask that saved the lives of countless American men in World War I. However‚ under the World War I slogan “Making the World Safe for Democracy” black men were not allowed to join the Marines‚ Coast Guard or Air Force. We have created over three hundred different
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protect endangered languages is a quite controversial issue at present. This essay will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of preserving languages‚ which are quite essential for governments and other organisations. One argument put forward is that humanity should care about languages because it may promote the development of cultural diversity. Just like biology‚ a language is not only related to an individual nation’s value or right‚ but also connects to the culture system all over the world
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Though the tiger is one of the most powerful mammals‚ it also faces the worst chances of being extinct. In fact‚ as many as three subspecies of tigers have become extinct in the last 30 years and there is danger of even more of the species becoming extinct. Recent estimates put the population of all tigers (including the ones in captivity) at somewhere between 5000-7500‚ with only about 3200 in the wild. At the beginning of the century‚ this number was closer to about 100‚000. This shows how fast
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wild tigers from becoming extinct? As people change forests to cities and farms‚ tigers have lost their living areas. On top of that‚ poaching—the illegal hunting of wild animals—is a major threat to the cat’s survival. People sometimes hunt endangered species‚ like the tiger‚ to illegally sell the animal’s body parts for souvenirs‚ medicines‚ and even food. Some people even pay high prices to buy tiger skins or other animal parts on the black market. By selling just one tiger‚ poachers can make enough
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Invasive species have a very negative effect on the native species in an area. They can cause a variety of problems from competition for food resources to introducing a new disease that the native species is not immune to. Larval amphibians do not have the defenses to handle introduced predators such as fish in their environment. Therefore introducing fish into these once safe and fish-free water sources will have a huge effect on amphibian population (Wells 825). Reversal of theses introductions
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hunting‚ environmental pollution and human encroachment into habitats‚ more and more species of animals are becoming endangered every day. It is society ’s duty to discover the source of the problem as well as find solutions for them in order to sustain what precious wildlife is left. By instigating protective laws for the threatened species‚ breeding them in captivity and releasing them in the wild‚ banning over-hunting‚ and many other ways‚ we can ensure that the wildlife that we have grown up with
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