why are beautiful species becoming endangered ? beautiful and wonderful species are getting...
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Endangered speciesMade by-
Vishakha Srivastava
WHY ARE BEAUTIFUL SPECIES BECOMING
ENDANGERED ?
Beautiful and wonderful species are getting
endangered just because of humans cruelty and
greediness. All of us need leather so we kill hippos, we need tiger’s skin so we kill tigers and so on . Let’s see
some of the endangered animals.
Tigers are endangered mainly from poachers.
Poachers are people who hunt illegally. There used to be 100,000 tigers in
Asia alone and now there are only 4,000 tigers left around the whole world. Poachers even hunt in
parks where some tigers live. Some people will pay 65,000 dollars for 1 tiger skin. So that is basically
why tigers are endangered, and maybe if
we try hard enough we can get them back.
WHY ARE TIGERS GETTING ENDANGERED?
This threatened reptile lives in the
Mediterranean Sea, as well as the Black
Sea and Atlantic Loggerhead turtle
Ocean. The turtle was once intensively
hunted for their meat and eggs, but its fat was also used in the cosmetic industry.
Many of these animals die annually caught in the fishing nets of crabfishers .
In Turkey, hotels have been built right on its
breeding sites.
LOGGERHEAD TURTLE
WHITE TAILED FISH EAGLE
Before man experimented with the use of pheromones, this spectacular bird of prey was much more numerous than it is today. They have also been hunted by shepherds and gamekeepers that considered them a threat to their sheep or birds. With intense conservation actions, the populations in eastern Europe recovered, recovery plans are aimed at colonizing some traditional breeding areas in Europe.
This bird can be seen in Britain, but its native
home is across eastern Asia, in Russia, China,
Korea and Japan. Worldwide population status is unknown, the
current Asian population being somewhere under
20,000. Extinction of these beautiful birds is due to mainly loggers, hunters and poachers.
Known predators include mink, raccoon dog, otters, polecats, eagle owls and grass
snakes.
MANDARIN DUCK
There are fourteen species of bat in Britain
and all of them are endangered. horseshoe
bat. The greater horseshoe bat is one of
the rarest. There are currently 35 recognized maternity and all-year
roosts and 369 hibernation sites.
Current estimates range between 4,000 and 6,600
individuals. They have also suff ered from the
use of insecticides (poisonous chemicals sprayed on to crops to kill harmful insects)
which have deprived the bats of their insect food.
GREATER HORSESHOE BAT
These animals l ive in several areas in Karnataka,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Many of India’s Lion-tailed macaque tropical forests,
the monkey ’s natural habitat, have been cleared and replaced with tea and coff ee plantations. As with
so many mammals, currently the main threat in the wild is destruction of their habitat. Poachers have also captured baby macaques, often kil l ing
their parents in the process, for i l legal export
to collectors. They are considered to be the most endangered monkey, with
only 400 individuals left in the wild. They are hunted
for their fl esh and fur.
LION-TAILED MACAQUE
They inhabit woodlands in Western Australia, this is
the only state in which they are found in the
wild. .The Numbat is now extinct throughout much of its range. It survives in the wild only in a small area in
the southwest corner of Australia. When man introduced predatory
animals such as cats, dogs and foxes, these animals
ate many Numbats . Their numbers are sti l l declining
since many of the areas that constituted their
habitats are being cleared for farming and mining.
NUMBAT
This is one of the most endangered mammals in
North America, an animal on the edge of Black Footer
Ferret ext inct ion in the wi ld. Loss of habitat is the pr imary
reason black- footed ferrets remain near the br ink of
ext inct ion. The remaining prair ie dog colonies are smal l and fragmented, separated by
great expanses of cropland and human development. By
the year 2010, biologists hope to have 1500 ferrets
establ ished in the wi ld, with no fewer than 30 breeding adults in each populat ion.
BLACK FOOTED FERRET
Once the most common sea-bird in in South Africa, the jackass penguin is the only
penguin to be Jackass penguin found in Africa. Because they live so far
north, and in a relatively accessible region,
African penguins have been particularly
vulnerable to human depredation.
Considering the decline in food supplies, seals
now prey on the penguins instead. Oil
pollution also threatens them, as does the taking
of their eggs for food.
JACKASS PENGUIN