Animal Extinction and ways of Preventing the Human Role in it
| Vol-3 | Issue-10 | October 2018 | Published Online: 10 October 2018 PDF ( 240 KB ) | ||
| Author(s) | ||
| Divya Saini 1 | ||
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1Msc geography |
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| Abstract | ||
Here we discusses about the causes of animal extinction. Animals are sidestepped as we tend to focus more on something that happens to our brethren. However, we also forget that what happen to our species, the human beings, it affects the animals and plants more, as they don’t have the ability to think and manipulate the environment as skillfully as we do. Habitat destruction, uncontrolled hunting and trading spreading of diseases and drastically changing climates are among the prominent causes of animal extinction. We are exposed to what animals are endangered, we are exposed to how we can conserve them, but we have yet to be exposed to what causes the extinctions, which will roll the ball for further research on how to prevent them. This would be useful, as prevention is always better than cure. Animals are part of our ecosystem, not only they contribute to the ecosystem and help to balance the ecosystem, they also have many uses in our daily lives, as the source of nutrition, researches, pets and trading. But due to human’s greediness, selfishness and also expand in populations, caused the population of the animals to decrease up to the point that they are in danger and eventually disappear from the surface of Earth like Dodo bird and Tasmanian Tiger. Yet, this issue is ignored or sidestepped as we care more of what affect us directly, when we should know that sooner or later, as part of the mammal species, these phenomena will also happen to us. Habitat fragmentation, destruction or loss, unsustainable hunting and wildlife trade, global warming and disease are the factors that lead to animal extinction. |
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| Keywords | ||
| Animals, ecosystem, extinction, habitat, wildlife. | ||
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