Decline in world wildlife population-“We need to act” The term wildlife refers to the animals those are generally not domesticated and live in the great outdoors, scattered around different parts of this mighty planet, Earth. Their existence is important as they support ecosystems. Recent studies show that, Earth has lost more than half of its wild animals, in the last 40 years. The main reasons, amongst the numerous others, for the declination of this population to such a great extent, would be
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Tess McMillan 4/22/15 Importance of Recycling Recycling can be for everyone. People that learn to recycling can help save the environment by helping saving the trees, the animals and their lives, and also help stop polution in the world. Learning to recycle can be easy and fun. Households can make a game out of it between people in the household. Knowing how and what to recycle can also teach responsibility to children within the household. Landfills are dirty and nasty. Landfills also polute
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protected areas in existence worldwide. These areas include parks, wildlife refuges and other reserves. They cover a total of nearly 2 million square miles (5 million square km), or 3% of our total land area. * Aquatic species, which are often overlooked, are facing serious trouble. One third of the United States’ fish species, two-thirds of its crayfish species, and almost three-quarters of its mussel species are in trouble. Why Save Endangered Species? * Plants and animals hold medicinal, agricultural
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antelope, swans, cougars, turkeys, wolves, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, boars, and other woodland creatures (Compiled by The Fund for Animals with data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife agencies). Less than seven percent of the U.S. population hunts. Hunting is permitted on 60 percent of U.S. wildlife refuges and in many national forests and state parks. More than 200 million animals are killed every year on federal land alone (more than half a billion acres).The stress
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rising sea level (Braasch Intro). D. According to the Wildlife and Global Warming web site, The National Wildlife Federation considers global warming to be "the most dangerous threat to the future of wildlife" (How does Global Warming Affect Wildlife, par. 1) 1. With rising temperatures, the thinning ice leaves fewer places for both the polar bears to hunt and the seals to raise their young (How does Global Warming Affect Wildlife: Polar Bear, par. 6). 2. Rising temperatures are causing
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south east.The green areas indicate rainforests. Rainforests are disappearing very quickly. The good news is there are a lot of people who want to save rainforests. The bad news is that saving rainforests is not going to be easy. It will take the efforts of many people working together in order to ensure that rainforests and their wildlife will survive for your children to appreciate, enjoy, and benefit from. Deforestation and hunting have been the greatest threats to the rainforests. However
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organization? Wildlife guardians When were they founded? They were founded in 1989 Why were they founded? (This information may be found in an “Our Mission” section of the website.) They work to protect and restore wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health in the American west. What do they actually do? Advocating to end activities that threaten to
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forcing green energy is the most effete way to live. Now think about it if we limit or found another way to transport the oil without the breaks of oil lines, or flipped over oil tankers that pollute the ocean and kills the wildlife we would save much more than just wildlife we would save a lot of money as well. It helps me think of cheaper renewable energy such as solar panels the most effete source of saving energy followed by Hydroelectric Electricity generated by running water through a dam's turbines
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habitats. In fact, it is nearly impossible to release captive-bred animals into the wild. A 1994 report by the World Society for the Protection of Animals showed that only 1,200 zoos out of 10,000 worldwide are registered for captive breeding and wildlife conservation. Only 2 percent of the world's threatened or endangered species are registered in breeding programs. Those that are endangered may have their plight made worse by zoos' focus on crowd appeal. In his book The Last Panda, George Schaller
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medical field. Potential advances include treatments for cancer, medicines for harmful diseases, and vaccines and other medications that are destroying the most important life on this planet: humans. The loss of several animals with the potential to save hundreds of human lives is without question a major advantage for society, despite the outrage and protests of animal rights activists worldwide. Breakthroughs and advances in the medical field will lead to improved medications and possible cures for
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Briana Guevara Final Draft of Work One Let’s Save Earth Together The world has changed drastically in the past 50 years, from population and technology to even new medicinal breakthroughs. There have been so many advances in cultures everywhere it’s no wonder people are unaware of serious environmental issues. Such as the billion hectares of earth’s rainforests that have been destroyed in the past 50 years. (Taylor) The rainforests of the world are crucial to thousands of animals, ecosystems, and
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people and the wildlife. We explore the many possibilities of what could been done to fix and prevent these catastrophes and what programs and processes have been implemented to save and preserve these great lakes. Determining Causes and Effects: An Exploration into the Pollution of Lake Huron The Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Michigan, Huron, Superior, and Ontario, are our largest freshwater lake system. Lake Huron, like all the other Great Lakes, contains many species of wildlife in its ecosystem
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for the citizens of Alaska. While the biodiversity here is limited, Alaska natives and tourists alike treasure the beautiful glaciers covering the mountains that line the bay. While it may seem as if the melting of these glaciers does not affect wildlife around the bay, this is a false conclusion. If the glaciers were to completely melt, the bare rock underneath would need to undergo primary succession before it would be suitable for life. This means that the 3.3 million acres that the glaciers
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kayla venable, mcneese state university Introduction: 1. Attention Getter: With the economy the way it is now and all that’s happening with the oil spill each and every one of us needs to put effort into saving the environment and our wildlife. The blame for global warming, landfills, and pollution rests in our hands. 2. Listener Relevance Link: What can you do as individuals
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and rehome animals, investigations and prosecutions. Through campaigning the RSPCA improve the welfare of our nation’s pets e.g. dog ownership, take action for the welfare of farm animals e.g. CCTV in slaughterhouses, protect the welfare of our wildlife e.g. the hunting act and step up for animals used in research and testing e.g. the new UK lab animal law. People for the ethical treatment of animals -focus on major areas of issue such as factory farms, clothing, laboratories and the entertainment
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The once thriving and healthy lives wildlife possessed all throughout the planet are diminishing rapidly. The presence of humans and our actions have had an immensely prominent role in affecting species and their natural habitats. The way we treat the environment, directly or indirectly, has a huge impact on species and eventually may drive them to extinction. Species are threatened every day throughout every continent. The rate of extinction has increased drastically since the early 1900’s, starting
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Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) is a beautiful 19.6 million acre coastal plain, and is located in the Northeastern part of Alaska. ANWR is home to numerous species of wildlife and one of the largest untapped oil preserves in the United States. There is an immense debate between the opposing environmentalists and the politicians who want to drill for oil on a section of ANWR, which is only 1.8% of the refuge. Environmentalists who oppose drilling for oil in Alaska say the wildlife and the native
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In the past three generations, the Asian elephant population has declined by 50%, leaving only around 20,000 to 40,000 left in the wild (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Staff). Despite Asian elephants unique characteristics, some people see them just as money. They’re willing to take away Asian elephants’ habitats and even their lives just for a profit. Many countries are working on changing this and hopefully conserving the Asian elephants we have left. Asian elephants have many different qualities
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The beauty that the California provides us in nature is one that is hard to be equaled to. Yet, the technology and human development has been slowly destroying what the beauty of the California and has to offer. Many species in California are endangered, if not already extinct. In order to stop adding more species to the list of endangered species, the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) should change laws in order to safe species before they are
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scrap metal from recycling banks, transport it to the recycling centre and then back to the stores to be resold Heat- all metals must be melted to reuse. Recycling steel means that we save 50% of energy, that we would have used to extract steel from its ore. Recycling aluminium saves 95% energy. Recycling metals save energy and 92% for aluminium, 90% for copper and 56% for steel. Recycling aluminium only uses 5% of the energy used to extract aluminium from its ore. The steel industry
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of ways, but it all comes down to one point, fishing too much, catching too much fish for the system to support leads to an overall degradation to the system. Overfishing is a non-sustainable use of the oceans. Overfishing is simply the taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species to replace themselves. Fishing is central to the livelihood and food security of 200 million people, especially in the developing world, while one of five people on the planet depend onfish as the
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gases act like a thickening blanket and trap the heat from the sun. Over the last fifty years the global temperature has increased at the fastest rate ever in recorded history (nrdc.org). These temperature changes have effects on weather patterns, wildlife and ocean temperatures. We can see signs of global warming today especially in the polar ice caps which are melting at an alarming rate. It has been estimated by the U.S. Center for Atmospheric Research that by year 2040 (less than 25 years from
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gases act like a thickening blanket and trap the heat from the sun. Over the last fifty years the global temperature has increased at the fastest rate ever in recorded history (nrdc.org). These temperature changes have effects on weather patterns, wildlife and ocean temperatures. We can see signs of global warming today especially in the polar ice caps which are melting at an alarming rate. It has been estimated by the U.S. Center for Atmospheric Research that by year 2040 (less than 25 years from
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and deer hunting is a major segment of the economy. Deer Farming/Ranches or Deer Hunting Lodges are a huge business. Management of the herd is a major concern for the USDA Forest Service and each of the individual State Departments of Fish and Wildlife. These agencies have goals to manage the deer population through posting hunting guidelines and doing research and development to improve the health and the quality of the deer population. There are many perils for the deer herd. One of the factors
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Waleed Farooq Period 1 1/24/14 Manatees & Sea Lions Manatees’ death numbers have a lowered these past few years and are does not have a conservation status of critically endangered animal anymore based on the World Wildlife Fund. The Sea lion also has the same conservation status. But each of them have their own reasons why their environment. Similarities One of the major reasons why these both animals are endangered are that humans have killed so much of this species. For a while these
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stable, secure and developed region, but globally, Nairobi is a developing city that is relatively new at tackling urban challenges. Currently, we see Nairobi having difficulty with confronting urban challenges regarding women’s rights, education, wildlife conservation and environmental issues. Nairobi like many other cities is Africa is experiencing rapid population growth with in dire need of help and we have the solution. Women’s Rights Throughout Nairobi’s history, women have been subjugated to
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forest into cleared land. “From temperate forest to tropical rain forests, deforestation continues to be an urgent environmental issue that jeopardizes people’s livelihoods, threatens species, and intensifies global warming.”1 According to the World Wildlife Foundation, worldwide, some of twenty-six hectares of forest (the equivalent of thirty-seven football fields) are being lost every minute. One of the reasons as to why deforestation is happening is because of the demand for paper has increased substantially
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percent each decade. If this trend continues, summers in the Arctic could become ice-free by the end of the century. 3. How does this dramatic ice melt affect the Arctic? The melting of once-permanent ice is already affecting native people, wildlife and plants. When the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf splintered, the rare freshwater lake it enclosed, along with its unique ecosystem, drained into the ocean. Polar bears, whales, walrus and seals are changing their feeding and migration patterns, making it
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are yet to be identified putting many species at risk. Another huge threat addressed earlier on is the tourist visiting the national park. They cause erosion by short-cutting on tracks trampling various plant species carelessly, littering, feeding wildlife, disturbing animal habitat, damaging vegetation and indirectly introducing foreign plants, seeds, animals and diseases. These cause destruction and interfere with the peaceful atmosphere that the animals and vegetation of Dorrigo
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the extinction of many species of fish, wildlife, and plants. The purpose of the ESA is to protect the endangered species, threatened species and critical habitat from further destruction by implementing key rules and guideline which would prevent interference in the species habitat, its resources and rehabilitate the species population to a specific size where they can sustain themselves. To enforce the rule and the guidelines the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) with cooperation with the
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