These days more and more animals and plants are becoming extinct. That means they must be protected in order to maintain the number of animals or plants, which are threatened by extinction. The question is how can we protect them? Right now polar bears and other animals are struggling more than ever to survive. There are a few things we can do to help. Stopping pollution, stopping wild animal hunting, and stopping deforestation are the main factors in keeping them alive.
To begin with, pollution is a huge threat to every single animal or plant. Pollution is the reason for global warming, which causes the destruction of many animals' habitat. For example, the icy parts in the north and south are melting very slowly, which puts penguins and polar bears in danger. Polar bears are the world's largest land predator. They can go for long periods, even months, without eating, but need to build up fat to live through lean times. The polar bear does this mostly by eating seals they catch on the ice. Without the ice they can't get to their prey. They also use the ice as many forms of travel and carrying of young. If us humans do not take a stand a stop pollution, then all the ice will melt and polar bears will go extinct. In an online article, Michelle Radcliff says “Understanding
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If we want to save animals from extinction, we first have to reduce the construction, which will save a lot of forests and therefore an animal’s habitat. Paulina Lam says that “The planet’s forests are under threat. Some thirty six football fields of forests are hacked, burned, and destroyed every minute. With each forest clearing, we lose about 135 species of animals, plants, and insects a day” (Lam). The easiest solution to deforestation is to plant more trees. This does not fully fix the issue of taking away the animals homes, but it does help them to be able to find a new
The grizzly bear trophy hunt is an issue regarding the citizens of Canada who immorally hunt and kill grizzly bears for pride, thrill, and trophy. Many people question whether this is morally acceptable as hunters kill without a conscience. Grizzly bears are vital to Canada’s environment as they are essential to maintaining a healthy ecosystem. As keystone species, they regulate prey, disperse seeds of plants,and aerate soil to maintaining forest health. Due to the vulnerability and over-hunting of grizzly bears, Pacific Wild and many other non-profit organizations, are working to protect wildlife in British Columbia, especially the grizzly bear habitat.
Many animals depend on different environments such as lakes, oceans or the forest in order to survive. However due to human intervention such as pollution of the ocean, or heavy deforestation, many animals are at the risk of extinction. One such example is known as the Gundlach Hawk which due to deforestation is currently on the endangered species list. Due to it being on the list, conservation attempts are being made in order to keep the animal alive and save it from extinction.
* Polar bears are members of the bear family Ursidae. They are a carnivorous bear which can be found throughout the Arctic region where they rely on sea ice to sustain their hunting activities. Canada hosts approximately 60% of the polar bear population. Other areas inhabited by polar bears include Alas...
Polar bears adaptation is thick fur (thicker than any other bears’), they have a thick layer of blubber beneath their fur that provides insulation, and their long neck and narrow skull aids the animal in the water while warming the air that they breath. Also, their front feet are large, flat, and oar like, making them excellent swimmers. They feed primarily on the fat of ice-dependent seals. They also eat walrus, beluga, fish, birds, and many other small animals. Two percent of their hunts for seals are actually successful. Another interesting fact is
Humans are hunting them illegally and they are taking their food sources for their own purposes. Humans have more to do with their extinction then most know, like when we travel to exotic places. When doing this we are most likely disturbing an animal’s home. Being in a controlled environment is much different from being in a cage, they are filled with others of their species and most of the times are left alone. This will help them reproduce and we can keep close eye on them to keep them from danger. Other ways to help, donate to wildlife charity WWF, you can also adopt a panda. There is very little that can be done to save these endangered animals. Also because of panda tourism is rising to an incontrollable level, professionals advise that tourists travel smart and be careful not to invade the wild panda bears.
Extinction is no longer just a natural process. It is an enemy, slowly changing our world into a barren wasteland where life is as rare as a flower in the Arctic Circle's winter. The wolf, the tiger, the caribou, the elephant, the bison, the cheetah, the sequoia cactus, the redwood tree – all of these and so many more things are on the verge of disappearing from our planet forever. Extinction is the most pressing environmental issue of our time, because if it continues the way it is going without anything being done to counteract its causes and consequences, there will soon be no environment left for there to be debates about.
Hunting Black Bears and Grizzlies could be affecting their population that is already low, but hunting with bait, dogs, different kind of guns and tactics, is negatively affecting how many are killed during a hunting season. The numbers are low there is a chance the bears are outnumbered by hunters and there tactics. The number of hunters privileged with a bear tag should be limited this could negatively or positively affect the populations.
Polar Bears live in the Arctic. In the winter, the temperatures range from -39°F to 30°F and in the summer, it ranges from 14-50°F. The arctic gets about 15-25 cm of precipitation throughout the entire year. A Polar Bear's niche is a predator, meaning they hunt for food. In a food web, there are listed as a tertiary consumer, which is the highest level on the food web. Polar Bears are a keystone species because the Arctic habitat is currently endangered. Polar Bears mostly eat animals such as beluga whales, walruses, and they rarely eat any type of vegetation.
are at a very high risk of extinction. There are over 3000 endangered species around the world due to many factors including over-fishing, hunting, destruction of habitat, climate change and a decrease in food supply. As the number of endangered species are increasing quickly it is very important that action is taken to preserve them for a number of reasons. If endangered species are not preserved it could easily lead to the species becoming extinct which could upset the food chain and lead to further extinction of other species. This could have not only negative effects on there predators but would eventually lead to having negative effects on species further up the food chain including the human species. Over the years researches have come to discover and find that all species play an important part in looking after our ecosystem and extinction could cause a big hole in the system.
Bears are vicious right? It’s their natural instinct to hunt and be one of the main predators on the food chain, and it doesn’t mean that we can treat them any type of way. Obviously, we are humans, and humans need special “items” such as resources from animals. Sadly in this case, the prime animal are bears. In multiple places around the world, such as South Korea, China, North Korea, ect...bears are abused for their resources that are useful to us humans.
Animals such as polar bears have substantial stomachs in order for them to eat excessively fatty foods. A polar bear’s diet consists of animals such as whales, belugas, and other marine mammals. One of the few traits that these animals have in common is their great deal of fat and polar bears have the strength in their stomachs to digest these foods. (Zoologist, n.d). The fat and protein filled animals are foods that humans will need to endure the arctic.
.... Some animals face endangerment because of human’s hunting activities and because of the climate changes. Due to the endangered rare species, people solve this problem by bringing these animals back to their natural habitat.
Do you know how much bear weighs? Enough to break the ice and eat the human race. Bears are not bais the thousand pound animal will eat childeren and the elderly all the same. There is nothing you can do to stop it, and its not just bears on land its all bears yes even panda bears and sea bears also known as polar bears. They will eat everyone faces thus we should all be afriad of bears yes,even bear cubs.
Any species which fall into the categories vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered are considered to be at risk of extinction. Robert Redford said “I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security defense of our resource’s because it’s just as important as defense abroad otherwise what is there to defend?” People should all take the environment more seriously and protect the future for those to come. It’s our responsibility to ensure that the children to come may enjoy all of earth’s beauty, and not through old issues of National Geographic’s.
The polar bear rarely eats plants. That is why it is considered a carnivore, or meat-eater. The ringed seal is the polar bear's primary prey. A polar bear hunts a seal by waiting quietly for it to emerge from an opening a seal makes in the ice allowing them to breathe or climb out of the water to rest. Polar bears eat only the seal's skin and blubber of the seal. The remaining meat provides a food source for other animals in the Arctic.