Brink of Extinction In Malaysia today the survival of wildlife have taken second place to human activity. All major wildlife species are now threatened with extinction. Does saving these endangered species and taking necessary actions for those who are on the brink of extinction means anything to you? Most of us are not aware that our Malayan Tiger‚ Clouded Leopard (Roy Goh 2011)‚ Pygmy Elephant‚ Sumatran Rhino‚ Orang-Utan and Turtles are in the under-extinction animals category
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The Extinction of Baiji The Baiji‚ also known as the Chinese River Dolphin‚ are part of the family Plantanistiade‚ the river dolphin family. They had exsited in the Yangtze River in China for thousand of years. Nevertheless‚ the Baiji was recently declared extinct. The baiji’s demise can be attributed to over fishing‚ its lethal environment and the Great Leap Forward in China. Excessive and illegal fishing was a great threat to the baiji’s way of life. Electric fishing and the fishing method
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BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION Biodiversity is determined by the variety of species extant in a specific ecosystem; this includes both animals and plants. Biodiversity is what gives an ecosystem a continuing and symbiotic relationship between all the organic and inorganic elements; maintaining the proper balance of different gases such as nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ hydrogen‚ carbon dioxide and many other elements‚ which differ in composition depending on the type of environment (such as subterranean‚ aquatic
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Extinction and Evolution Ecology helps us understand the importance of mass extinction in evolution‚ and it also helps us understand some of the causes of extinction. Ecological niche is one of the most important concepts to understand. An animal or plant lives in a certain place is active at a particular times‚ and eats certain things; all these factors describe its ecological niche. Our environment is parted into millions of ecological niches‚ each that represents a probable home for life
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GMO’s inside a lab and work to expel the uncontrolled production of GMOs‚ because of the fact that the genetically modified organisms can interact with the environment and cause the transfer of harmful genes which can lead to the elimination and extinction of all natural organisms. It may not be a well known fact but GMOs have greatly increased our quality of life. GMOs have mainly helped our agricultural industries by increasing the size and the quality
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The Sixth Mass Extinction The mass extinction of certain animal species and plants that is facing the Earth today has been compared to‚ although some scientists suspect worse than‚ the extinction of the dinosaurs. The annihilation of the dinosaurs was caused by the collision of a large asteroid with the Earth. This current mass extinction‚ however‚ is different than any of the five mass extinctions that have been seen by the earth because this extinction is manmade‚ not natural. With the search
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reasons as well as argument for necessity of conducting such campaign. First of all‚ the environmental degradation is widely recognized as a primary reason. In fact‚ the deforestation and environment pollution have put creatures on the verge of extinction. Domestic apes in Vietnam‚ which have die out due to shrinking of tropical trees‚ could be taken as a particularly salient example of this. Ignoring the impact of human on minimizing the habitat of animals is thereby a grave mistake. Additionally
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Elizabeth Kolbert‚ The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History‚ 2014 Introduction Central to Elizabeth Kolbert’s 2014 publication is the assertion that globalization coupled with industrialization have paved the way for a new epoch‚ the Anthropocene. Dubbed The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History‚ the text explains “Anthropocene” as a period of “a human-dominated geological" age that will see humanity usher the world into its next mass extinction (Kolbert 108). Invented in 2000 by Paul Crutzen
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‘The Earth is experiencing a sixth mass extinction‚ brought on by the proliferation of humanity and its activities of production and consumption. ... The was in which the capital system operates makes a mockery of the necessity of economising. Indeed‚ it pursues everywhere with utmost irresponsibility the opposite of economy: total wastefulness. It is this profit-seeking wastefulness that directly endangers the very survival of humanity (and other creatures that share the planet with us)’ (Jone
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De-Extinction is one of the hottest topics in the science world currently and it tops the lists of conservation and genetic scientists alike for next big project. Though this could be a great way to learn of past species and finally see them for ourselves‚ at what cost is a species revived? The idea of bringing back an extinct species‚ such as some type of dinosaur‚ comes with many questions that most find to be debatable. Conflicts arise from every aspect of this “new” animal including how it is
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