Top 5 Most Endangered Animals
- Diceros bicornis (Black Rhino)
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Panda)
- Panthera tigris (Tiger)
- Huso huso (Beluga Sturgeon)
- Macroclemys temminckii (Alligator Snapping Turtle)
According to World Wildlife Federation (WWF), the above animals are the most endangered species. Ever wonder, what animals are those? Those animals are in there scientific names to be more specific. (Trivia: When typing the scientific names in the computer, capitalize the first letter of the first word and italicize it, example: Cocos nucifera; Cocos nucifera is the scientific name of the coconut) Meanwhile back to the ranch, as I said, those species are in their scientific names, and the words after them are their common names. They are now endangered because of us. Want to know why?
The planet Earth, the place where we live, is shared by millions of species of living things. This wide variety of life in earth is called biodiversity. This high biodiversity keeps us away from being endangered and extinct, but as we can see nowadays, there are many endangered species and soon they will be extinct. Some species become extinct because of non-human forces just like calamities and catastrophes but many others are becoming endangered or threatened with extinction because of the human activities, OUR activities.
People have lived on earth for many thousands of years. For a long time people thought thae Earth was so huge that it could easily absorb human wastes and pollution. And they thought that Earth's natural resources would never be used up. And worst is we thought that we are the only living life form here on Earth. At first we only use a little of our resources and it had only a small impact to our environment but as time went on our population boosts and needs more production of food that's why we continue doing human activities that can harm animals and plants like illegal cutting of trees and poaching, not knowing that it has big domino effects in our environment including the extinction of some species. We share this planet with trees, flowers, insects, fish, whales, dogs and many other plants and animals. Each species of animal or plant has its place on earth, and each one is dependent on the others. We, too, are dependent to other living things; remember the food chain, if one is gone others will be affected and soon die. We, Humans are not exempted to that concept that's why we must care for them before it's too late and before we, also become extinct.
Remember that we are not the only living life form here on Earth, also remember that WE ARE NOT THE BIG BOSS AND THE ANIMALS ARE NOT OUR SLAVES, so we must take care of them. You know what, if they could only speak to us they would tell us: "You, Humans are just dependent on us, on our meat, our fur and the like, and we provide those for you to fulfill your needs, so you'll live long, so you'll survive. We had good connections and communications for the last million years but now you are ABUSING us. If we could just discontinue supplying your needs, we'll discontinue it, but we can't because we care for you." - See, animals care for us so let's care for them too. Efforts to reduce pollutants in air, water, soil, to preserve rainforests and to limit other deforestation and overharvesting help to preserve biodiversity. A few species that were once endangered now will probably survive. Why wait for them to be extinct, let us now work hand-in-hand to save those animals. Let us start saving them, not only the top five but all animals in the world, because if all animals will be extinct it will affect us, because we are in chain and if one will be gone, a domino affect will happen. Let us now show our care and concern for them.
-Christine Joyce M. Palcone
