THERE HAVE BEEN five mass extinction events in the Earth's history,the last time it was ,65 million years ago, the dinosaurs vanished ,Now again there is a danger of extinction due to human . Men drives more animals and plants to extinction.Men destroys the life support systems that all species depend on including humans.
PATHS TO EXTINCTION.
GIANT ARMADILLO-Hunted for food .It's 50 percent population have been killed in last ten years.
IBERIAN LYNX- Just 150 left in the wild,this is the most threatened cat species in the world.
MOUNTAIN GORILLA-There population left to only 700. in the wild.Expanding farms have left their forest home isolated and they are threatened by poachers.
ORANG- U TANG- Poaching and massive deforestation due to oil palm plantations. now 60,000 survive in the wild.
BISON-Millions of shot in the 19th century and now only 3,000 truly wild bison.Native of North -America, they are being saved from extinction by a breeding program me
AYE-AYE-This nocturnal primate is threatened by the destruction of rainforest.A native of Madagascar, left very few in the wild.
BENGAL TIGER-The royal Bengal tiger is poached for the illegal fur trade and Asian medicine market.They are now less than 1,500 in the wild.
BLUE WHALES-Almost wipe out by the whaling ships in the 1960s.now less than 5000 remain.Population have recovered since a whaling ban was implemented.
ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTINCT.
Some strange animals roam freely in this land ,but now are no more and have vanished for ever.
MAMMOTH-Due to climate change and hunting, woolly mammoth vanished from Europe around 10,00 BCE.A small group survived wrangel island(Siberia) until 1,650BCE.
DODO- It was a flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean.It was wiped out little more than a century after it was discovered by humans in 1581.
The phrase 'dead as dodo' .rightly shows its extinction.
GREAT AUK- This flightless bird had white and black feathers.It was once numerous along north Atlantic coastline, but it was eventually hunted the great auk to extinction in 1844.
QUAGGA- It was a zebra with stripes on front of the body.It roamed South Africa's cape province. in large numbers until the 1840s, when it was hunted to extinction by bore settlers.
WAYS TO SAVE A SPECIES.-
Blue whale,Snow leopard, Tiger, Albatross,cheetah,lion blue billed duck.,Solitary eagle.Java rhino,South China tiger.
It is the duty of every ' world' citizens to show concern over the issue of conserving wild life of our planet Earth.These are the greatest gift of nature to us.If we want that, coming generation could witness this marvel of nature ,then we must protest against any activity that cause destruction to our wild life.
EXTINCT ANIMALS.
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PATHS TO EXTINCTION.
- Growing population- The more people there are the less space there is for animals.
- Habitat destruction.
- Pollution.
- Hunting and fishing.
- Alien invaders.-When humans bring align animals or plant into a new habitat, the native species often can't compete or will catch diseases they can't fight.
- Climate change.-Global warming is attacking animals and plants in number of ways - from melting the sea ice that polar bear need for hunting to bringing tropical rains early,plants blossom to soon to feed the animals that depend on them.
POLAR BEAR- Global warming is a serious threat as their natural habitat melts away.
GIANT ARMADILLO-Hunted for food .It's 50 percent population have been killed in last ten years.
IBERIAN LYNX- Just 150 left in the wild,this is the most threatened cat species in the world.
MOUNTAIN GORILLA-There population left to only 700. in the wild.Expanding farms have left their forest home isolated and they are threatened by poachers.
ORANG- U TANG- Poaching and massive deforestation due to oil palm plantations. now 60,000 survive in the wild.
BISON-Millions of shot in the 19th century and now only 3,000 truly wild bison.Native of North -America, they are being saved from extinction by a breeding program me
AYE-AYE-This nocturnal primate is threatened by the destruction of rainforest.A native of Madagascar, left very few in the wild.
BENGAL TIGER-The royal Bengal tiger is poached for the illegal fur trade and Asian medicine market.They are now less than 1,500 in the wild.
BLUE WHALES-Almost wipe out by the whaling ships in the 1960s.now less than 5000 remain.Population have recovered since a whaling ban was implemented.
ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTINCT.
Some strange animals roam freely in this land ,but now are no more and have vanished for ever.
MAMMOTH-Due to climate change and hunting, woolly mammoth vanished from Europe around 10,00 BCE.A small group survived wrangel island(Siberia) until 1,650BCE.
DODO- It was a flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean.It was wiped out little more than a century after it was discovered by humans in 1581.
The phrase 'dead as dodo' .rightly shows its extinction.
GREAT AUK- This flightless bird had white and black feathers.It was once numerous along north Atlantic coastline, but it was eventually hunted the great auk to extinction in 1844.
QUAGGA- It was a zebra with stripes on front of the body.It roamed South Africa's cape province. in large numbers until the 1840s, when it was hunted to extinction by bore settlers.
WAYS TO SAVE A SPECIES.-
- Setting up nature reserves and parks so that enough numbers of rare animals live in the wild to survive on their own.
- Building up population of rare animals in zoos through captive breeding that can be release into the wild.
- International agreements on hunting can protect endangered animals such blue whale.
- Using alternatives in place of products from rare animals, like rhino horns used in some Chinese medicines.
- Storing an animal's genetic material in a gene bank so that in future scientist may be able to 'grow' a new animal of an extinct species .
- Poaching should sternly checked in reserve forests, these poachers are a real danger for rare animals in particular and other animals in general.
Blue whale,Snow leopard, Tiger, Albatross,cheetah,lion blue billed duck.,Solitary eagle.Java rhino,South China tiger.
It is the duty of every ' world' citizens to show concern over the issue of conserving wild life of our planet Earth.These are the greatest gift of nature to us.If we want that, coming generation could witness this marvel of nature ,then we must protest against any activity that cause destruction to our wild life.
EXTINCT ANIMALS.
ENDANGERED ANIMALS-
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