Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Humans...really?









I have often wondered whether or not humans are the actual main cause of any animal being endangered. Personally, i lean way too the side that says they are the cause. I mean think about all the reasons animals are endangered. Most of the main obstacles animals have to face when interacting with humans are natural habitats being demolished, cold-hearted poaching, and usage of pody parts in traditional medicine. Animals also face fatal diseases, but so does mankind and they seem to make it through it too. So basically, humans have been affecting the animals that inhabit this earth in a negative manner ever since the beginning of our existence. From the beginning of time man has been hunting animals for food sources; today the act of hunting has evolved into cruel poaching games. Natural habitats for animals are being destroyed, for example, trees of the forests that house many creatures are being used for paper and building structures. Humans have made the earth their territory and any obstacle that stands in their way they will conqure no matter what the consequence.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Hypothetically speaking...









...what if humans were meant to end certain endangered species' existence for the good of nature. Maybe the species are endangered because with the way the world is evolving over the years that species will not be able to survive. This world is based on the saying that life is the "survival of the fitessed." So possibly, species that are endangered cannot make the necessary evolution to continue living on earth. Thus, humans were put here to help end that species before they could not survive anymore. I just think that humankind will cease in exisitence some day, however far away that may be, and if humankind will face extinction then what is so different about endangered animals' exitinction. Not to say that i want endangered animals to reach extinction, but i'm just thinking that it may be inevitable anyway.





Humans and endangered tigers










So my big question pertaining to endangered animals is, how much human involvement is too much? By human involvement i mean humans interacting with the endangered species whether the actions is productive or destructive to the species. For example, many zoos are trying to breed white tigers together to ensure the potential of white offspring. Breeding simultaneously acts as a good and bad effort to help the white tiger. Firstly, when the zoos breeds two white tigers today, because of the ancestry of most white tigers, the zoos end of inbreeding say a father and daughter tiger together. This type of breeding causes physical deformities, still births, and health defects. The upside to this breeding is that if the cubs survive they become a new addition to the population of white tigers that is currently declining. Therefore, this type of human involvement should be questioned as far as its true benefits to the species. An example of just plan cruel human interaction is poaching tigers for their body parts to be used in things like Traditional Chinese medicine. This aspect needs to discontinue immediately if white tigers are going to live for generations to come. Good human involvement, in my opinion, is making donations to wildlife foundations that fight to help ensure the animal's habitat stays intact and the poaching stops.

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