Persuasive Essay On Animal Extinction

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Animals have been disappearing from our world at an tremendous rate. As the world 's population goes up, the animal population goes down. There are people who do not care or simply choose to overlook that animals are going extinct at an incredible rate. People choose to kill endangered species instead of rebuilding them. There are conservation efforts that are trying to slow or even stop this process. The Merriam-Webster definition of extinction is when an animal species has ended or died out. Many people tend to believe that animals die out from natural causes of lack of food and their homes getting destroyed, but even when there is plenty of food and space to live they can go extinct. An example of that is in September 1914, Martha …show more content…

A few of the most popular reasons is from deforestation/habitat loss, human encroachment, poaching, and illegal wildlife trade. Deforestations happens mostly in Brazil, in 1990-2005, the world lost 172 million acres of forest and most of that was in South America. The land is mostly cleared out for pastures and for building new homes. Human encroachment is not a big deal now, but is going to be a bigger deal later on. The human population is at 7.4 billion in 2016, and by 2050 there will be over r10 billion people. India and China have the biggest populations, they have almost 3 billion people in those two countries alone. Poaching has become a bigger deal recently; elephants and rhinos are being poached for their ivory, tigers and leopards are hunted for their hides, and apes and gorillas for food. The rising global trade in animal parts have made poaching even more profitable than before. Illegal wildlife trade is the buying and selling of endangered live animals as pets/performers. The problem has become so severe that conservationists have made the term empty-forest syndrome to describe habitats that remain standing, but no longer have animals in them. Animals are going extinct due to humans and most people do not care or choose to ignore it. (time.

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