Bald Eagle Research Paper

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Imagine you are driving down the road on your way home from school, eating a bag of your favorite potato chips, carefree and listening to music. As you finish your snack, you decide that rather than leaving the package inside of your car, you will just dispose of it out the window. With no regard as to how it could affect our environment or our animals, you decide to get rid of the rest of the trash in your vehicle as well. Littering is something that occurs quite often and pollution is just the beginning of factors that negatively impact our wildlife. The carefree actions of humans have led many species to face endangerment. The bald eagle, an American icon and national symbol, was considered an endangered species due to negligent human disregard. …show more content…

At one point in time, farmers considered bald eagles to be a threat to their livestock. This threat led to the birds being shot and killed. Habitat degradation also largely contributed to the decrease in the bald eagle population size. The amount of woodlands that were destroyed due to the expansion of cities took out a majority of the bird’s nesting areas. Another thing that also had a huge, if not the worst, impact on the endangerment of bald eagles was the use of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, or DDT. This chemical substance used as a pesticide leaked into the eagle’s water source. The fish that were in the water were contaminated, which meant the eagle’s food source was harming them. By 1963 only 487 nesting pairs remained, meaning the eagles were close to extinction (Fact Sheet: Natural …show more content…

In both positive and negative ways, human’s actions are always affecting the lives of animals as well. To reduce future endangerments, we can work to decrease competition between humans and animals (Wyatt, Tristram D. 110). We can also work to understand interactions and aspects of animal behavior that can help us to protect threatened animals. (Wyatt, Tristram D. 113). Scientists can work to learn more about the effects of climate change due to humans and they can campaign to bring awareness to the negative effects we have on wildlife (Wyatt, Tristram D. 114). When humans are more informed about how we affect animals and how we can protect them, there is a much greater chance that they will survive or avoid

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