Introduction To My Blog

This blog will discuss the importance of protecting endangered animals. Moreover, not just endangered animals, but all animals. We all know the importance of Bee’s and what they do to our environment by producing pollen that grows our flowers and therefore helps to produce food. As each animal has a place in this world, each animal makes a change to our environment and our eco-system.

Sadly because of the increase of population, it makes it harder for the animal to survive as we take and need more places to live, we then damage the forest or field to build more buildings, therefore damaging their habitat. If we could find a better way to live with each other, some of the issues that I will discuss would help to decrease and protect animals, from being endangered or worse extinct.

Some of the main issues for endangered animals are: 

·         Poaching

·         Deforestation

·         Global Warming

·         Environment and Communication

Poaching: Is when an animal is killed illegally. It occurs when the animal possesses something of value to the poacher. For example, using an animal’s fur or bones for trophies. Lots of these items are sold on the black market mainly in Asian countries to be used as medicine. Poaching is threatening a large amount of animals all over the world.

Vietnam, China, Thailand and Korea are a few countries with markets for horns and tusks. The corruption, loose laws and light sentences allow criminal networks to freely, keep poaching animals. As the people who get caught are normal poor locals, therefore this leaves the top dogs to keep running their networks safely.

Deforestation: Is the removal of the forest or standing trees. This is where the forest is therefore converted to a non-forest and change to be farms, ranches or urban uses such as houses. Sometimes the forest is left damaged, because all they have done is cut the trees down, therefore the quality of land is unable to be reused.

Global warming: is the increase of the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. This is affected by greenhouse gases increasing such as carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Which in time affects the air that we breathe, also it affects the conditions of the vegetation that we and other animals eat.

Environment and Communication: Lack of communication between people, means less information about how to treat and protect animals. This is because people do not understand the condition that we create for them.  Therefore, it would be beneficial to the environment to have stricter rules about how to protect the environment that we, both human and animal are living in. 

What is the difference between:

• ·         Zoo
• ·         Safari Park
• ·         Wildlife Sanctuary

Zoo

Is an enclosed place, which has a collection of wild animals. This is where animals are shown to the public, so that they can take pictures of them and walk around freely without feeling that they will be harmed from them. Zoo’s, are also there so that endangered animals can be studied and safely reproduce, to keep them from becoming extinct.

Safari Park

An area of parkland, where wild animals are kept in open areas. Where they can roam around freely, therefore, this helps to have tourists to be able to drive through the attraction and observe animals in a more natural habitat.

Wildlife Sanctuary

Is a large area of land which is protected from poaching, animals which are endangered can freely roam around and live in peace.  This can be as big as an island. There is mainly African wildlife Sanctuary.