How to Protect Endangered Wildlife

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In the past decade more than ten species of wildlife have become extinct. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature around half of the world's original forests have disappeared, and they are still being removed at a rate 10x higher than any possible level of regrowth. As tropical forests contain at least half the Earth's species, the clearance of some seventeen million hectares each year is a dramatic loss (http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/species/problems/habitat_loss_degradation/). People need to learn how many endangered animals there are and how to protect them. The humans take their machines and human labor workers into restricted areas of the world to cut down the animals’ habitats. The humans are illegally coming in and cutting down the forests or the pollution in the air is creating a hole in the ozone that is melting the polar ice caps. In addition poachers are also shooting these animals for their hides and ivory that they can sell on the black market for a hefty price. Four animal species that are being affected by habitation loss and poaching are The Cross River Gorilla, The Giant Panda Bear, Polar Bears, and Tigers.

Figure 1 Deforestation in the Amazon (http://www.indigenous.youth-leader.org/?p=4082)

The Cross River Gorilla lives in the rainforests and in the rainforest where most of the deforestation is taking place. In the wild there are only two hundred to three hundred individuals left in the wild (Lewis http://worldwildlife.org/species/cross-river-gorilla). Their diet consists of leaves, fruits, and flowers (http://a-z-animals.com/animals/cross-river-gorilla/). The Cross River Gorilla can live anywhere from thirty-five to fifty years. They can also weigh up to four hundred forty pounds as a full grown...

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"Tiger." (Panthera Tigris). Ed. Barney Long. N.p., Nov. 208. Web. 11 Mar. 2014. .
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