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WHAT THE ...........

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I’ll be ready to go see you tomorrow morning then I can go to the store to see if you want me and I’ll be ready to go see you soon I’ll be ready to get ready for you I’ll see if I could get you ready to walk to my place then I will see if I could go to see if you want me to go to get there for you then if I’ll get ready

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R.I.P

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We are animals too, we are all the same

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Some animals should not be protected, like cows as they give out green house gaseswhich leed to flood

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Siew Quan

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It’s raining

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What are the consequences of extinction?

Altering ecosystems through cascading effects

If a species has a unique function in its ecosystem, its loss can prompt cascading effects through the food chain (a “trophic cascade”), impacting other species and the ecosystem itself.

An often-cited example is the impact of the wolves in Yellowstone Park, which were hunted to near extinction by 1930. Without them, the elk and deer they had preyed upon thrived, and their grazing decimated streamside willows and aspens, which had provided habitat for songbirds. This left the stream banks susceptible to erosion, and a decline in songbirds allowed mosquitoes and other insects the birds would have eaten to multiply. When the wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995, they once again preyed on the elk; plant life returned to the stream banks and along with it, birds, beavers, fish and other animals. (Note: David Bernhardt, acting secretary of the Department of the Interior, just announced a proposal to strip gray wolves of their endangered status in the Lower 48 states.)

Kelp forests are another classic example. They play an important role in coastal ecosystems because they provide habitat for other species, protect the coastline from storm surges and absorb carbon dioxide.

Yet kelp forests are rapidly getting mowed down by exploding numbers of purple sea urchin. California sea otters eat the purple sea urchins that feed on giant kelp. These otters used to number in the hundreds of thousands to millions, but their population has been reduced to about 3,000 as a result of unchecked hunting in the 19th century and pollution. Moreover, in 2013 the sunflower starfish, which also eats purple sea urchins, began dying because of a virus that was likely exacerbated by warmer waters. Without the sea otter and the sunflower starfish predators, the purple sea urchin began feasting on the kelp forests, which declined 93 percent between 2013 and 2018. (A new study  found that kelp forests are now also threatened by ocean heat waves.) The explosion of sea urchins not only damaged the kelp ecosystem, it also had serious impacts on Northern California’s red urchins that are valued for sushi. Fish that need the kelp forests for spawning, such as sculpin, rock cod and red snapper may become vulnerable in the future as well.

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Some animals literally whip humans to death e.g. jellyfish

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We should not throw rubbish in th esea

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We are the only ones that can change the life’s of the animals

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survival of the fittest is a thing in nature so I believe that since humans have developed the technology to overcome the fact that humans have no evolutionary advantages we should have the right to decide the life of animals as we are the sole most powerful animal.

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Animals die everywhere not only from humans if we protect them as much as humans they will loose the ability to defend themselves

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Life is not fair

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All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.

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Save them!

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Who agrees?

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😭 I want to save the animals

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Protect animals

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If we kill animals, dead bodies would be dying around

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Please do not kill animals.

They look so sad.

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Video: Horror as rabbits animals are savagely abused at Russian fur farm | Daily Mail Online

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Video: Horror as rabbits animals are savagely abused at Russian fur farm | Daily Mail Online

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Horror as a PETA investigation uncovers rabbits and chinchillas being savagely abused and killed at a fur farm in Russia.

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According to a study ,humans are to be blamed for all the mammal species that have gone extinct so far like example the west African black rhinoceros, Pyrenean ibex , the Sicilian wolf , Tasmanian tigers , Japanese sea lions Guam flying foxes, caspian tigers and many other animals that aren’t just mammals in the 1900 to the 2000. Climate change is affectionate to animals lives and causing extinction , it is also affecting nature as we speak . Or and more animal species are becoming endangered, and many face the threat of extinction. Researchers have predicted that by 2100 , 558 mammal species are going to extinct if conversation efforts are not improved. Polar bears could go extinct very soon, if Global warning isn’t stopped. We are losing biodiversity and population, we lose unique evolutionary history.

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Who agrees?

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10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species:

1. Giant panda
2. Tiger
3. Whooping Crane
4. Blue Whale
5. Asian Elephant
6. Sea Otter
7. Snow Leopard
8. Gorilla
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Orangutan

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Endangered species
Tiger
Rhino
Gorilla
Snow leopard
Turtles
Blue whale
Polar bear
Black footed ferret
Orangutans
Giant panda
Leather back sea turtle
Sei whale
Green sea turtle
So many endangered it means almost extinct! If all animals extinct,we can only see them in pictures

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It’s so sad that animals are extinct because of humans.

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According to one estimate, 200 million land animals are slaughtered around the world every single day. That's 72 billion a year. In the United States alone, roughly 25 million animals are slaughtered every single day. An average slaughterhouse kills up to 1,100 pigs every single hour.

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Yes, animals should be protected. Come to think of it, aren’t humans animals too? Animals also have hearts, brains, feelings. So why are we treating animals differently? If we continue doing this, the world will slowly disappear. Stop cutting down trees and stop fishing! Animals should be kept safe.

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Some animals are going extinct because of us…… I think we should be 70% responsible for this ~ Ye Zi

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Some animals are going extinct because of us…… I think we should be 70% responsible for this ~ Ye Zi

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Btw It is expensive and difficult to keep wild animals in captivity

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WHY SHOULD ANIMALS BE PROTECTED?

Animals should be protected because science increasingly demonstrates that animals are more sensitive, aware, and intelligent than has long been believed in places like the US. The knowledge that animals are very likely aware of the conditions in which they’re kept in places like factory farms, or the abuses they suffer during laboratory experiments, means that a change in practices is long overdue.

Animals also play a critical role in the ecosystems and biospheres that make life on Earth possible for humans. Protecting animals—as well as the oceans, forests, and grasslands they inhabit—will help safeguard the future for all species, including homo sapiens.

IS ANIMAL PROTECTION EFFECTIVE?

Animal protection can be very effective, whether through grassroots advocacy, engaging with corporations to hold them accountable, or lobbying elected officials to enact protective legislation. The Humane League has secured many victories for animals over the years. Below are a few examples of how animal protection can be effective at reducing abuses for millions of living beings:

Walmart, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Costco agreed to stop caging egg-laying hens, including the use of battery cages, which cause many welfare violations.

Aramark and Compass Group adopted policies to provide chickens with better living environments, reduce stocking density, and improve welfare during slaughter.

Coffee giant Starbucks agreed to adopt policies to improve chicken welfare by providing them with more space and less cruel slaughter methods.

Subway reformed its chicken welfare policies to implement better living conditions (including improved lighting and better enrichment), optimized stocking densities, and less cruel slaughter methods.

More recently, Whole Foods Market, Aldi, and Restaurant Brands International (RBI) joined the ranks of large corporations that are making strides to improve the lives of the chickens in their supply chains.

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Animals are food. Plants too. So we should not take advantage of our food supplies in Singapore. I eat plant based meat monthly so I strongly encourage eating plant based meat

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Humans depend on animal food. If there is no more food, we will DIE

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Even though we have seen most species extinct, there is a chance we can save some of them. Take the black rhino. It was at the edge of extinction when humans stepped in and saved them. We can save more animals!

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The dodo died because of humans that killed dodo

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23% of the planet’s land ( excluding Antarctica) and 13% of the ocean can now be classified as wilderness, representing a10% decline over the years.

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23% of the planet’s land ( excluding Antarctica) and 13% of the ocean can now be classified as wilderness, representing a10% decline over the years.

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1. How can you tell if something is extinct?
A) UNFORTUNATELY, ONE CAN’T VERY EASILY (AT LEAST NOT FOR CERTAIN)
i) As Hermione Granger pointed out to Xenophilius Lovegood (while discussing the Resurrection Stone; Rowling. 2007. Harry Potter 7:334) it is essentially impossible to prove that something does not exist. This same problem applies to assessing extinction.
ii) Consequently, conservation biologists have had to develop criteria for deciding when the probability of extinction is sufficiently high for us to assume that extinction has happened. None of these methods are perfect.
B) TIME-BASED CRITERIA
i) One approach used for many years, and still frequently referred to and
used by some, is to declare a species extinct if it has not been recorded for a given number of years. Frequently 50 years is used, leading to the so-called “50-year rule”.
ii) Several problems with this approach have been identified: (a) The number of years is arbitrary. (b) The time-span is based on a time-scale relevant to human lives, meaning that its relevance may vary among different types of organisms (50 years is probably not bad for species that live only a few years, but what about a tree species in which individuals could live for 100s of years?). (c) There are plenty of species that have not been seen for several decades only to be “rediscovered”.
C) SEARCH-BASED CRITERIA
i) Given criticism of the “50-year rule”, the IUCN (International Union
for Conservation of Nature) adopted a definition based on both a lack
of verified records and the search effort expended looking for a species.
ii) Their definition is: “... no reasonable doubt that the last individual
has died. A taxon is presumed Extinct when exhaustive surveys in known and/or expected habitat, at appropriate times (diurnal, seasonal, annual), throughout its historic range have failed to record an individual” (bold is my emphasis).
iii) A problem with this definition is that its requirements are so restrictive that, for many species, it would be impossible to ever achieve this level of certainty. In other words, the burden of proof is so severe that it makes it very difficult ever to call something extinct. (Xenophilius would have approved.)
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D) STATISTICAL CRITERIA
i) Given that one can never be absolutely certain about an extinction (e.g.,
how can I prove there is no plesiosaur in Loch Ness?), and that there is always some chance of persistence (though vanishingly small in the case of Nessie), various methods have been developed to estimate just how probable it is that a species survives.
ii) One group of methods looks at “gaps” in the record of sightings. Inconspicuous species, with long periods of no sightings between confirmed records, are quite likely to persist for a while after the “last” confirmed observation. On the other hand, if a species is seen almost every year for a long time and then is seen no more, it is quite likely to be extinct.
iii) Using these methods, it is possible to take the pattern of sightings and “gaps” with no sightings and estimate (a) when a species went extinct, (b) how certain one can be about that date, and (c) the probability that the species is extant.
2. Extinction rates vary
A) IT IS NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM
i) In much of this set of notes, and the last one, I stress the many
extinctions that are happening. But, it is important to know that it is possible for species to avoid extinction, and for local populations to recover (as long as a species is not globally extinct).
ii) Extinction does not happen immediately, but is a process that occurs over a variable (and often quite long) period of time. Many species persist even after habitat has been altered or reduced, and many continue to be found in remnant patches. In fact, it has been estimated that only about half of all the extinctions that one would eventually expect to happen will occur in the first 50 years after an area is impacted. This phenomenon of delayed extinction has been referred to as an “extinction debt” – although some extinctions are expected they will not occur until sometime in the future.
iii) In one sense this means that the situation may be worse than it seems because you will not see all the extinctions immediately. But, at the same time, this debt might help buy time to reverse certain changes and prevent anticipated extinctions before it is too late.
iv) Consequently, declines can be reversed and extinctions avoided. At least in theory they can. More on this later in the course; for now, back to the doom ...
B) SINGAPORE (Brook et al. 2003)
i) One study examined the amount of extinction and patterns of extinction
on the island of Singapore. In Singapore, more than 95% of the natural vegetation (mostly forest) had been destroyed in the previous ~180 years.
ii) The researchers estimated that up to 73% of all species in the groups of organisms they looked at have been extirpated from the island. Unlike the previous estimates of extinction rate I have given you, most of these extinctions have actually been documented. Those that have not are based on estimating which species were probably already extinct before they were ever recorded on the island (i.e., species that we know existed in nearby Malaysia, and that would have been capable of getting to Singapore). Thus, this is a much better estimate than those we have talked about previously.
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iii) Among the remaining species, many are functionally (and ecologically) extinct (the “living dead”) because so few individuals remain that the species will probably disappear soon. For example, at the time the paper was written there were only about 15 banded leaf monkeys and 5 white-bellied woodpeckers left.
iv) The study looked at 9 different groups of organisms. Likely extinction rates were high for all groups, but there was variation among groups both in the number of documented extinctions and in the likely total number of extinctions.
v) Extinction rates also varied among habitats. For example, 33% of forest interior species have definitely gone extinct, while only about 7% of the species found in open habitat or along forest edges have disappeared. Among fish, more than half of the forest species are gone, while all of the open habitat species remain.
vi) Body size was also important – for birds, extinction rates were higher for large species than for small.
vii) In addition to all the extinctions, the researchers found that 77% of the remaining species are threatened.
viii) Although only about 0.25% (i.e., 1/400th) of the total land area is protected, they estimated that the loss of these reserves would cause the number of future extinctions to double.
ix) Finally, they noted that the reserve system has no “redundancy.” By this they mean that most species are protected in only one place. So, if that site goes, the species will disappear completely. For example, a quarter of all the remaining fish and decapod species occur in just one 5 ha reserve (this is an area smaller than the cemetery across the road from TLS).
3. What makes species vulnerable to extinction?
A) SMALL POPULATIONS
i) Small populations are at higher risk than large populations.
ii) This should be no surprise since they are “rare” in the classic sense of there not being very many of them.
iii) When the population is small even random events are likely to have an effect – for example when there are 10 individuals it is more likely that all will fail to breed in the same year than when there are 10,000 individuals.
iv) Another example is that when populations are small it becomes increasingly likely that the remaining individuals will simply fail to find each other.
v) Also, genetic problems become more likely as population size decreases. This is because there is less genetic variation overall (simply because there are fewer individuals) and because each individual is more likely to have to mate with a close relative (thus causing inbreeding). More on this topic later in the course.
B) SMALL GEOGRAPHIC RANGE
i) Species with a narrow geographic range are at higher risk than those
found over a broad area – this is another form of rarity. Globally they are rare because you cannot find them in many places, but where they do occur they might be quite numerous.
ii) These species are especially vulnerable to catastrophic events that occur in a single place – e.g., things like an oil or chemical spill, or a disease outbreak – because the whole population would be affected.
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iii) Also, these species typically have nowhere to go if their habitat changes.
iv) Often narrow range species are referred to as “endemics”. Strictly speaking this is not an appropriate use of the word (in fact, all species – not just those with narrow ranges – are endemic to somewhere), but you should be aware that in conservation settings people use the term in this way.
C) POPULATION SIZE FLUCTUATES A LOT
i) Populations that fluctuate in size a lot are generally at greater risk than
similarly-sized populations that are more stable. This is simply because wild fluctuations mean that the population is likely to get close to zero more often.
ii) This problem is especially great for species that already have low numbers.
D) HABITAT SPECIALISTS
i) Species that use some specialized habitat or other resource are
generally more vulnerable than generalist species, simply because they
have fewer options if the resource disappears.
ii) This is especially so if they specialize on a rare or limited resource.
E) SPECIES IN SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS
i) Symbiotic species (those that rely on some other species to survive) are
highly vulnerable, because the loss of the species they have a symbiotic relationship with will mean certain extinction. These species can be thought of as extreme specialists.
ii) Scenarios of this type are sometimes referred to as “chains of extinction,” because one extinction inevitably leads to others.
iii) For example, many parasites specialize on a single host species; some plants are pollinated only by a single species of insect; etc., etc.
iv) One recent estimate (Koh et al. 2004) suggests that about 500 extinctions in well-known groups of organisms have probably led to about 200 “co-extinctions” of entirely dependent species. This same study looked at about 9500 species listed as endangered and estimated that there are at least another 6300 dependent species that will also go extinct if all the endangered species are lost.
F) LARGE SPECIES
i) Large species tend to be vulnerable because they require large areas to
support populations that have a good chance of persisting; this in turn is
often because individuals require large home ranges.
ii) This pattern is probably more true for animals than for plants, although large plants may still need more space (and nutrients, etc.) than smaller
ones.
iii) Large species are also typically more vulnerable to exploitation (i.e.,
people tend to hunt mammals and birds, but not insects or zooplankton) and large trees are often more likely to be cut down than smaller ones.
G) SPECIES WITH LOW REPRODUCTIVE RATES
i) Species with low reproductive rates tend to be at risk because it takes
them a long time to recover from population declines.
ii) Low reproductive rates can arise because few young are produced at
each breeding attempt, individuals take several years to reach reproductive maturity, or because individuals breed infrequently.
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iii) For example, albatrosses do not breed until they are 5-12 years old, lay only one egg at a time, and do not breed every year.
iv) A low reproductive rate in and of itself need not be a problem, as long as an organism lives for a long enough time to still produce a number of offspring. E.g., albatrosses can live several decades. But if survival rates drop – as has happened to albatrosses as a result of modern fishing practices – then their low reproductive rate creates a problem.
H) SPECIES WITH COMPLEX LIFE-HISTORIES
i) A complex life-history can increase the risk of extinction because it
often means that there are more things (or more places) that a species
relies upon.
ii) Example: Species that use multiple habitats run a greater risk, because
it only takes something bad happening in one of those habitats for the
species to be at risk.
iii) Example: Species that migrate long distances are also vulnerable,
because they need suitable habitat in lots of places. Imagine trying to protect a bird that needs breeding habitat in Arctic Canada, wintering habitat in southern South America, and migratory stop-over habitat at various sites in between. Compare that to a small plant that never goes anywhere.
I) SPECIES THAT ARE POOR DISPERSERS
i) Organisms that cannot move around easily are often more vulnerable
than those that have greater dispersal abilities. This is simply because the ability to move can help an organism to get away from threats or to colonize additional habitat patches.
ii) Example: There are many species of tree snails on islands in the Pacific that are restricted to very small areas (partly because they live on islands, partly because snails don’t get around a lot). Many of these species are at great risk of extinction.
J) SPECIES THAT LIVE ON ISLANDS
i) Species that live on islands generally are much more vulnerable than
those on the mainland. This pattern arises, partly, because island species have many of the traits I have discussed above (e.g., small populations, narrow range, limited dispersal ability, etc.).
ii) In addition, islands tend to have high speciation rates and have a lot more species that meet these criteria than would an equivalent area of the mainland.
iii) Finally, island communities tend to be “impoverished” compared to mainland communities – fewer predators, fewer parasites, and perhaps fewer competitors. Thus, island species often have not evolved the ability to deal with potential threats in the way that mainland species have. So, dodos were naïve to the threat of predators and reportedly let early sailors club and eat them out of existence. More generally, there is a greater chance that when new species are introduced to an island (usually by humans) the newcomers will have a large impact on the natives.
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4. Extinctions can still be very hard to predict
A) A CAUTIONARY TALE: THE PASSENGER PIGEON
i) Having said all of the above, you might think that it is pretty easy to determine which species are most vulnerable to extinction – and to a
large extent this is probably true. But, it is also true that it is possible for pretty much ANY species to be driven to extinction, even those that you least expect.
ii) The passenger pigeon provides an important example of this.
B) THESE BIRDS SHOULD NOT HAVE GONE EXINCT
i) Passenger pigeons used to occur throughout the eastern US. People
have speculated that they were once one of the most numerous species of land bird on Earth. Less than 200 years ago, the eminent ornithologist Alexander Wilson reported seeing flocks that he estimated contained 2 BILLION (this is not a typo) passenger pigeons. Maybe he overestimated, but these flocks were reported to be 2-3 miles wide and 300 MILES long, and could darken the skies for days as they passed overhead. That’s a lot of pigeons.
ii) Nonetheless, by the end of the century they were extinct in the wild, and in 1914 the last one in captivity died.
iii) This was a species with a huge population, a broad geographic range, not (as far as we know) an extreme specialist, not especially large, not an especially low reproductive rate, not a poor disperser, not a species that lives on an island, and so on. Little about this species would lead you to predict that it would go extinct so rapidly.
C) SO HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
i) Well, they were hunted a lot – both for food and because they were
seen as a crop pest.
ii) Their habitat was destroyed (forests were cut down).
iii) There is also some suggestion that they needed to be in big groups to survive and breed successfully, and that once populations dipped below a certain level there was no way for them to recover.
For more on passenger pigeon, check out the link here.
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Yes they should. Humans kill millions of animals but animals don’t attack humans as much. Even though they sometimes do attack humans, but do remember that they are not ‘educated’ and they only attack us if we disturb the animals. Some animals can also be our companions, workers, eyes and ears. They also provide us with food(milk, eggs etc.). Animals can also be powerful pollinators (bees, by going around the flowers), help grow trees (squirrels, by burying nuts in the soil and forgetting them) and creating a source of water (elephants, by collecting the rain in their footprints on the ground). It is better to be a veterinarian (but I’m not), vegan (but I’m not) or pescatarian (but I’m not).

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Many animals need the nature. But some cruel “hoomans” go cut down trees. Because of this, animals have no where to live or nothin to eat, so they die, and become extinct.

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The web of life

While it may seem unimportant if we lose one salamander or rat species, it matters because all species are connected through their interactions in a web of life. A balanced and biodiverse ecosystem is one in which each species plays an important role and relies on the services provided by other species to survive. Healthy ecosystems are more productive and resistant to disruptions.

A recent study found that extreme environmental change could trigger an “extinction domino effect.” One of the study’s authors said, “Because all species are connected in the web of life, our paper demonstrates that even the most tolerant species ultimately succumb to extinction when the less-tolerant species on which they depend disappear.” So saving one species means saving its habitat and the other species that live there too.

“When you lose one species, it affects the ecosystem and everything around it gets a little bit more fragile while it adapts to change,” said Kelsey Wooddell, assistant director of the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability. “Even if it’s not a keystone species [a species that others in an ecosystem depend on], its loss will weaken the functionality of the entire ecosystem, which just makes it easier for that ecosystem to stop working.”

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By protecting that like humans we also give the, the same right as humans and if they do something wrong by instinct they will be killed

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Many animals are endangered because of humans ,like the Baiji dolphins a.k.a.the white flag dolphins.the pink dolphins only have 2000 individuals left. hector dolphins are the rarest and most smallest dolphins, (that’s what google said) it only consist of 10000 left

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A pig ate a humans face! This shows that some animals can be as scary as humans!

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Hunters have been hunting down tigers for their skin.

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Killing all animals slowly year by year is kinda equal to 没饭了 which means like you have no more food as many of us who are not vegetarian depend on animals to eat and fill our tummy

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Only 17% of the world is untouched by humans and in the places inhabited by humans and 60% of animals are exploited by humans because humans turn animals into livestock.This leads to animal cruelty and people tend to forget that animals are living things that should not

be treated as materials. Thus I believe that by adding laws that prevent

animals from being farmed and any meat consumed or sold must be

hunted from in the wild,then humans will realise how little animals are in

the wild and will probably decrease the demand for meat thus solving

animal cruelty. A important part of this is to grant animal rights so that

animals can roam freely and won’t restricted to staying in a location decided by humans for are own convenience but I do believe that we

should ban wild animals from urban areas for safety purposes .

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Animals also harm humans.It is not only humans who harm animals.

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That is 1000000000000 dollars

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Everyday 150 animals go extinct

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We humans also depend on animals for food like sheep, pigs and cow and more…… if they go extinct, we humans will someday go extinct too! And, if the animals that we depend on for food goes extinct, we can also eat plants (of course the ones that are edible) but climate change is basically ruining everything but we should also think cuz we are creating climate change which ends up becoming humans trying to make themselves go extinct ~ Ye Zi

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We humans also depend on animals for food like sheep, pigs and cow and more…… if they go extinct, we humans will someday go extinct too! And, if the animals that we depend on for food goes extinct, we can also eat plants (of course the ones that are edible) but climate change is basically ruining everything but we should also think cuz we are creating climate change which ends up becoming humans trying to make themselves go extinct ~ Ye Zi

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Animals play a critical role in the ecosystems and biospheres that make life on earth possible for humans and living organisms.

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28 percent of Singapore’s animal species are now extinct. THERE WILL BE NO MORE ANIMAL TOURIST ATTRACTIONS!!!

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The number of Amur leopards has only less than 100  for the past 5 years

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Yes. Animals should be protected as humans are protected but are animals too; we are just a big threat to earth. Cutting trees and destroying the earth, and and animals can disperse their seeds and grow new ones. (By droppings). They are a big use to the survival of the earth. Besides… animals are able to think and feel..

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Animals should not be extinct because some contribute to our life. Like chickens are our food and birds disperse seeds which grows new trees .

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Axolotls are critically endangered. We might lost them forever :(

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We should protect protect the animals because Biodiversity is vital for a healthy and functional ecosystem. The ecosystem is delicate. Extracting wildlife from its natural habitat inevitably leads to disastrous results. If a single species should become extinct, the whole food chain is disrupted – affecting all species

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Science increasingly demonstrates that animals are more sensitive, aware and intelligent

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HEY why so noisy

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How many species are endangered?

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, over 26,500 species are in danger of extinction. This includes 40 percent of amphibians, 34 percent of conifers, 33 percent of reef-building corals, 25 percent of mammals and 14 percent of birds. In the U.S., over 1,600 species are listed as threatened or endangered.

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Some animals extinct in the past 100 years
1 Tasmanian tiger
2 passenger pigeon
3 golden toad
4 pyreanean ibex
5 paradise pigeon
6 silician wolf
7 bubal hart best
8 Japanese sea lion
9 heath hen
So many animals extinct in only 100 years we must protect them

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Animals should be protected. As species disappear, infectious diseases rise in humans and throughout the animal kingdom, so extinctions directly affect our health and chance for survival as a species.

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1 million wildlife species are threatened with extinction

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1 million wildlife species are threatened with extinction

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Animals already eat each other and that happened hundreds of times!

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Animals should also not be extict because some disperse seeds

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Global warming is projected to commit over one-third of the Earth's animal and plant species to extinction by 2050 if current greenhouse gas emissions trajectories continue — a catastrophic loss that would irreversibly reduce biodiversity and alter both ecosystems and human societies across the globe.                Mya

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If we do not protect the animals, all the supercute animals will soon be extinct.

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Yes all lives are precious. Even small lives. Everyday, up to 150 animal species are lost. Even six species are extinct because of us EATING them. Can you believe it? Some extinct animals are even in some of our stomachs. WE are the ones leading 1 million species to extinction.

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Animals should be taken care of because they have no right to suffer as they didnt do anything wrong.

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I wanna be an environmentalist and an animal ptotector

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They should be protected but not in our way

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1.9 Million kilometre squared of land have been lost.

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1.9 Million kilometre squared of land have been lost.

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1.900 species have been extinct in the past 100 years.
2. Pandas, elephants and some other wild animals are likely
to be extinct by 2025. Might be because of climate change.
3. Humans kill innocent animals just for food.
There are only about 5366 to 5627 rhinos left in the wild.

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Yes they should be protected the same way as humans. We don’t realize the bad things that we did to animals until we get what we deserve and what we did.

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Yes! Take the Dodo for instance. Humans have destroyed its habitat and killed it. 400 YEARS AGO!Now we can only see it in museums.

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If animals become extinct, the whole ecosystem would collapse.We would also have no food.

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Animals also play a critical role in the ecosystems and biospheres that make life on Earth possible for humans. Protecting animals—as well as the oceans, forests, and grasslands they inhabit—will help safeguard the future for all species, including homo sapiens

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Animals are becoming extinct and some animals depend on the climate like polar bears and their ice are melting and they are going to be extinct :( I mean yeah, who can resist polar bears? They are sooooooooooooooo cute and adorable ~ Ye Zi

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Animals are becoming extinct and some animals depend on the climate like polar bears and their ice are melting and they are going to be extinct :( I mean yeah, who can resist polar bears? They are sooooooooooooooo cute and adorable ~ Ye Zi