How do you stop animal extinxtion???

Question

i love animals and im tired of them becoming extinct or becoming endangered. Lynxes, elephants, tigers, and a lot more are becoming extinct.im tired of it because people are just killing animals for game and for the fur which is causing them to become extinct. And it is us that are causing them to become extinct. we need to help the animals.

Answer 1

you could start by not buying any products that invovled animals in it.

Answer 2

Animals are being extincted because:

Poaching -

This can be reduced by making people aware and

restricting the areas of human activity  in Biosphere reserve and sanctuaries and national park and not allowing any private ownership.

Industrial development-

this is one of the main reason. Industries are mining the land and cutting the forest for their own profit.

These industries are main contribute in global warming and water pollution(animals die due to the consumption of polluted water)

Government should frame rigid laws so that the habitat and the habitant both are protected.

natural calamities such as forest fires -

Forest fires are common and these destroy the habitat of the animals . Fire lines should be build

conversion of forest land into agriculture land -

Deforestation is being done to convert forest land into agriculture land and to grow more crops to satisfy the need of food of growing population.Due to Deforestation natural habitat of many beautiful species get destroyed and either they are killed by poachers or they die in a road accident. Communities should be set up for combating over population and make people aware that a "small family is a happy family".

Answer 3

first understand that better than 95% of all species that have lived on this planet are extinct, and man had little if anything to do with 99.999999% of those extinctions. for example the sabre toothed tiger was a viable species up until 10,000 years ago when they disappeared. same with the dire wolf, and the wolley mamoth. their cousins however have survived through today. why does a species go extinct? one big reason is the lack of ability to adapt to it surroundings. another reason that that their food source went extinct, and they were unable to adapt to hunting a new source of food.

i am not saying that man hasnt been part of the problem with a few species dying off, but when a species hunts its food source to extinction, what is man to do? especially when man was not part of the equation?

but rather than just look at a few species that may have gone extinct due to mans involvement, look at the number of species that were about to go extinct that due to the work of man have recovered, the california condor for example. there are also movements afoot in the scientific community to bring back species that are now extinct through the use of viable DNA that has been found, and is being preserved just for the possibility of renewing an extinct species.

remember too that an average of 5 species go extinct everyday, and man has nothing to do with them in many cases. also understand that new species replace them in time, and again man has little to do with that. it is a natural process that has been going on for trillions of years. at some point in time this universe will die, only to be reborn as a new universe.

Answer 4

Species are going extinct at a rate of 3 per hour, according the the World Wildlife Federation/UN report last year.  90% of them are unknown to science, and sadly, will never be known.  That's a higher rate than any of the six mass extinctions in the past. Biodiversity experts believe we have begun the seventh.   In most cases we don't clearly know the reason why.  In most cases an entire population dies all at once, too quickly to be studied.  The human population is increasing at a rate of 10,000 per hour.  Each human requires 1-2 hectares worth of resources.

From the UN report

" How does this rate compare with the mass extinction rate during the Permian? A die-off event is considered a mass extinction when 50% or more of species become extinct in a relatively short geological time span. If 27,000 species are lost per year in a world containing 10 million species, approximately 3 out of every 1,000 species (0.3%) are lost each year. The background extinction rate for previous eras, assuming 10 million species, has been calculated at between 1 out of every 1,000,000 species to 1 out of every 10,000,000 species. Thus, the current extinction rate may be as much as 30,000 times higher than background. "

If you scroll down on the first link you'll find hundreds of links.  The others are things I thought you might be interested in.  As far as doing your part, you can see that the problem is too big for one person to fix by themselves.  So you need to set some goals.  Habitat loss is the biggest cause.  You can work on preserving a particular type of habitat.  You can also pick out a species to "adopt".  I've adopted the Maclura Pomifera, a type of tree. Build awareness, recruit others.  I wish you well.  If I can help, call on me.  May God Bless You.

Answer 5

wear some deoderant

Answer 6

I eat them....the best way to save a species is to eat it, because there is no shortage of any animal regularly eaten by the American people.

Answer 7

we should keep them as pets so they can b tooken care off, and so they can reproduce when they r healthy

Answer 8

I agree with Matt 100%!

Answer 9

typicality, animal extinction isn't only from hunters, yes there have been a few animals thats the cause. get some facts before you figure out how to save the animals.

Answer 10

The solution depends on the reason the species is threatened (and it's not just cute animals, it's ugly ones that taste nice, or uninteresting ones that make useful products). Conservationists tend to group threats into 4 main categories which are in this order of priority for most species:

1. Habitat loss and disturbance - overwhelmingly the most important, and caused by human (e.g. expanding agriculture to feed greedy consumerism) and natural causes (e.g. fires), or a mixture of both (e.g. forest fires facilitated by logging activities). On a global scale the best way to reduce this is to stop government subsidies for agriculture (these often make it cheaper to expand land rather than improve yield), poverty, and reduce consumerism (discouraging people to want useless c**p!). There are lots of local actions to consider - these depend on the political/geographical context and there are too many to list here.

2. Over-exploitation/hunting - a major threat to many species, but often only because it is coupled with habitat loss. For example, orangutans have been hunted for a long time but this has increased because access to their forests is easier thanks to logging roads and agriculture - it's the habitat loss that is more important because these animals simply don't have other places to go. Stop this by controlling the trade and discouraging people to want these animals as pets. Remember though that not all hunting is bad, and in many places hunting reserves (where rich people pay to hunt for sport) often protect large populations of animals, even if some of them are hunted.

3. Invasive species - when a species is introduced to a new area and disrupts the natural interactions between species (by outcompeting them, eating them or spreading a disease). We stop this by minimising the spread of species into new areas (think about how rats spread all over the world on transport ships)

4. Pollution and climate change - on a global scale this is a lower priority (except for maybe amphibians), but with climate change it will be more important in the long term. See the other pages for solutions to climate change...I've already written an essay!