Imagine the howl of the Thylacine(Tasmanian Tiger), it’s fast footsteps scurrying across the plains of Australia, following the Thylacine is a baby Thylacine, racing across plains of Australia for the first time. The fast flowing blood zooming through the Thylacine’s veins once again. Restoring the homeostasis back into its habitat. What if we could bring back the extinct? What if we could restore what we destroyed once before? Bringing the extinct back can change everything. The way we study science, the way we look at the past, the way we look at the future. Resurrecting the extinct can change so much in such an enormous way. Never again will we worry about extinction, never again will we fuss about dying. We can change the future, one small …show more content…
For example, the passenger pigeon was a keystone species for the whole eastern deciduous forest, from Mississippi to the Atlantic. According to National Geographic News it states, “Yearly the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent,” the pioneer conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote, “sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life.” This shows that the passenger pigeons were a very important keystone in their biome. These passenger pigeons had a very high reproduction rate, but even though they had a very high reproduction rate, we still ended up driving them to extinction with our rapidly advanced technology in a matter of decades. Another extinct animal that was shown as a keystone specimen is the woolly mammoth. National Geographic News reports, “In their absence, the grasslands they helped sustain were replaced by species-poor tundra and boreal forest. Their return to the north would bring back carbon-fixing grass and reduce greenhouse-gas-releasing tundra.” Keystones are the “key” to a healthier environment, sustaining homeostasis in the biome and
A species in particular that I have researched is the red fox or Vulpes vulpes as it is known in the scientific community. The animal is native to North America, Asia and Europe where they thrive in habitats ranging from temperate deserts to boreal forests, but its range spans the entire globe (Tesky 1995). The red fox is omnivorous which means that it feeds on animals and plants equally, which, creates impacts on both types of populations within its habitat. What makes the red fox invasive is its introduction to Australia and Eastern parts of the United States, as a result of migration of Europeans t...
Today in America thyroid disease is becoming a much larger issue and the worse part of this problem is that many people are not yet diagnosed. This is due to the lack of education and awareness about thyroid disease. There are many different types of diseases but the one that I am passionate about is hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid is when the thyroid is no longer able to produce triiodothyronine, also known as T3 and thyroxine, also referred to as T4. Some of the symptoms include unexpected weight gain, tiredness, depression, or slow movements and thoughts. Most of the time many people notice the way that their bodies act on what they are feeling to their physicians. Many Americans struggle with this disease that
The preservation of any species that contributes to the biodiversity of an area. In an ecosystem, the absence of one species creates unfavorable conditions for the others. The. The absence of the spotted owl could have a significant effect on the North Coast forest ecosystems. In order to send the owl population to the right.
Scientists have been attempting to recreate the woolly mammoth's genetic information. They have made bringing back the woolly mammoth or even other extinct animals “theoretically” possible. We are still deciding if bringing the woolly mammoth back into the environment is attainable and if this is what scientists should be focusing on, as well the pros and cons of this process. The scientists call it: de-extinction. Before I explain how this will be even scientifically possible, let’s compare this as a real life Jurassic Park experience, at first it was an ingenious idea. Additionally, can we talk about how much this will affect us? They are starting the process currently, and in about the next three years, we will have a real life woolly mammoth roaming the earth. We have little time to panic as our awaited deaths will be soon from a “science experiment”. Many people are concerned about the impact this will have on ecosystems and environments, and how this technology could make de-extinction a real part of our future.
Football is a dangerous sport, in fact, retired NFL players are 19 time more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease of any other similar memory loss diseases, found by a recent study by the university of Michigan. CTE a disease that Acura as a result of constant head injuries and contact, and has been growing rapidly in the NFL. The NFL has been denied giving the many claims that CTE has a direct connection with professional football, until recently. The NFL has been taken to court multiple times over the topic of CTE. Although the National Football League is preparing to settle a class-action lawsuit with players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the League should do more for players because not only has it profited from
Thesis: The use of alternative medicine in autistic kids should include medical supervision in order to avoid overdosing, internal bleeding, and organ failure.
Mills, Scott L., Daniel F. Doak, and Michael E. Soule. "The Keystone-species Concept in Ecology and Conservation." BioScience 43.4 (1993): 219-25. Apr. 1993. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.
Pimm, Stuart “Opinion: The Case of Species Revival”, news.nationalgeographic.com, 13 March 2013, 20 May 2014
Various plant and animal species depend on each other for what each offers and these diverse species ensures natural sustainability for all life forms. A healthy and solid biodiversity can recover itself from a variety of disasters. It is estimated that the current species extinction rate is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be. Therefore, there is an urgent need, not only to manage and conserve the biotic wealth, but also restore the degraded ecosystems. c) Captivity breeding species can again be reintroduced into the wild.
...ws and acts such as the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act, Fur Seal Act, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, and the Coastal Management Act, have all helped to prevent the stocks of these important organisms from declining even further. Even though these have been enacted, the general public still needs to be educated and made aware of the population trends of these animals, as well as their importance to the tropic systems surrounding our coastlines. Many individuals do not realize, for instance, that Sea Otters are a keystone species in kelp bed habitats, and without them, kelp forests would dwindle in numbers and the health of those ecosystems would decline rapidly. Kelp forests provide habitat for over a thousand species of animals, many of which are important for fisheries and without those forests, fish abundance would fall as well.
== = = Human beings are dependent on the Earth's diversity of species for our survival. Wild species play a vital role in the maintenance of the planets ecological functions, yet everyday on the planet 40-100 species become extinct.
I recently read your article “stuff the tiger-long live extinction”, published on 10 June 2007 by The Sunday Times. The points you make I find are too harsh or unrealistic in my point of view. There for I am writing this letter to help you understand that there are different opinions about this topic and I am writing against your point of view.
"Will Cloning Ever Save Endangered Animals?." (2013): n.pag. Scientific American. Web. 31 Mar 2014. .
Humans have eluded extinction for millennia with the help of medicine. Medicine today helps us restore our health to “normal” state. Normal of today is different from normal in the past and being normal means being average. Many use medicine to get back to normal and some use it for enhancing themselves. One medicine that stands out is steroids. Steroids help your body recover faster from injuries and are supposed to be therapeutic. However, many use steroids to enhance people’s performances in sports and create new heights. Today, we are reaching a point where we are able to modify genes and protect our newborns from common illnesses such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and even cancer. This technology does not stop there and is able to change physical abilities as well as metal abilities, protect our children from depression, and even elongate lives. Whether gene modification will be used
As biological Controls – *Birds are very helpful in controlling injurious crop pests. *There are a wide variety of insect eating birds. *Sparrow generally eat seeds of noxious weeds. *Birds of prey such as hawks, eagles and owls kill rodents, hare and ground squirrels etc which destroys the crops. *Birds can destroy up to 98% of over-wintering codling moth larvae, a major pest of apples worldwide. *No doubt, in the absence ofbirds, many of these insects may become even greater pests, destroying our agricultural and forestry crops. As key stone species –*Some birds are considered keystone species as their presence in (or disappearance from) an ecosystem affects other species indirectly. *For example, woodpeckers create cavities that are then used by many other species. *After the extinction of the dodo, it was discovered that a tree whose fruits had been a primary food item of the dodo was unable to reproduce without its seeds passing through the dodos’ digestive tracts, which process scarified the seed coat and enabled