Causes of the endangered animals’ extinction

 

     Like individual animals, animal species also eventually die out. A species is endangered when it is in immediate danger of dying out completely. Its numbers are dangerously low, and it needs protection in order to survive. The Siberian tiger and giant panda are famous examples. Today, animals are disappearing at the appalling rate. Most species are threatened by environment’s pollution, habitats’ destruction, and unreasonable exploitations by people. 

     Even though there are a lot of regulations for hunting and fishery, some people still illegally hunt endangered animals. In the past the environment changes caused the greatest influence on extermination of species, however now the human do a role of that. With uncontrolled hunting, many species die out every year. Especially, since the people wear the clothes being made by animal skins, more species have been threatened by unreasonable hunting and poaching. The very high demand for animal’s parts for certain foods or medicine is another example. A price of these parts is so high that people kill the endangered animals even though it is against the law. For these reasons, the illegal trade of endangered animals is still prevalent behind law.

     Additionally, the global warming is also important reason about extinction of animal species. The global warming has caused increase of temperature, change of precipitation, and unforeseen weather phenomena. Especially, the current global warming is moving much faster than speed that the animals can adapt to changed environment, therefore every ecosystem is changing rapidly. The polar is a typical example of the results by the global warming. They usually hunt seals walking above the frozen sea. However, as years go by, freezing speed of the sea was delayed, so hunting became difficult. Therefore they had no choice but to dying of hunger. The decrease of amounts of overall arctic ice causes that the polar sometimes die by drowning.

The main cause of species endangerment is humanity’s destructions of both water and land habitats. People have destroyed a great number of forests because of economic development and industrialization. Deforestation and soil, air and water pollution can destroy all habitats. It can then cause a large number of animals or plants to die. Furthermore, the developments for forests cause the inflow of new viruses. They usually don’t have immune system against the infection of a new virus, so it can cause the extermination of endangered species.

In conclusion, for these reasons a large number of species are facing the crisis of extermination. First, in order to protect animals from the extermination of species, public awareness of this issue is important. People have got to make an effort to reserve the forest and nature, because there are habitats for wild animals. To leave the good quality of the nature to future generations, we must protect plant and animal species not only now, but also in the future.