You can Help!

Yes, YOU CAN HELP. Instead of bothering about stressful stuffs, why now bother about saving the wildlife? When we hear the word wild, isn't it we thought about endangered species? That's why our class is here to promote our mission about achieving to raise the awareness to reduce the demand for threatened and endangered species products and to increase public support for wildlife conservation.

Commonly, many countries including the Philippines lack resources to defend our parks and wildlife against rampant pouching. Illegal wildlife products are still openly traded in many places and countries, with buyers often unaware of the law or of the devastation they are financing. But we can change this in our lifetimes.

Endangered species should be protected at once unfortunately, lack of resources, expertise and political will - combined with unchecked demand - mean that trade regulation and protection of species is often weak.

But as we know, this problem cant be solve without enough finances, that's why we also depend on other alternative ways which cant barely help solving the said problem. Even small amount of help in spreading the awareness would save the wild.

We call for every person's help in saving the wild, for better future. Other people may plan to do this illegal thing for their own benefits but hopefully by now the word was already spread to every mankind.

Every year thousands of endangered animals are killed, for their skins, ivory, fins and other body parts to satisfy the global market for illegal wildlife products. Support the species that are threatened by illegal trafficking each year.




-Danielle F. Estoesta

Save the World

I have chosen this as my title because I want to contribute and help in saving our environment. As I could observe on what is happening right now many of the spicies are endangered if we will let this happen their species could not be seen by the future generations. First, what are the reasons behind these? for me it is because of the people who continually destroying our environment by means of illegal logging that could be led to the bird out of their place to live for and continually hunting them for food without any reasonable answers. we should not let this happen because many of us will suffer at the end. Just like what happen to Tasmanian wolf, boa, dodo, great auk, passenger pigeon, spectacle cormorant, English wolf and many more. I am really disappointed because they sacrifice their own lives just because of technologies and progress, it is not bad if we are in a good status right now but we could not see all of the disadvantages that this progress could bring. Before I end this, I would like to leave a message,"We have no right to treat these organism like that way, remember that we are here to take good care of them. God gave us all these things to take good care for and we are not the owner of this world, God just let us to use this bacause he loves us. Take good care of our environment and don't abuse it because at the end we will also regret the effects of the things that we have done."



-Kristoffer Paul P. Evangelista

Palawan Porcupine

Have you ever heard about a Durian? Of course! But my article is not about the fruit that you eat. Instead this is a creature who is living here on Earth, like us.

A Palawan Porcupine is known as Durian/Landak in Palawan. Hystrix pumila is the scientific name of it.

This is a species found in primary and secondary forest in the mountains and in the lowland. These animals choose to stay in caves, but they are commonly under the rocks or trees. As you have seen in the picture Palawan Porcupine has a spiny skin. These spiny skin serve as their protection and defense system.

It is an endemic species restricted in the Palawan Faunal Region. It has been recorded in the islands of Busuanga, Calauit, Coron and on the Mainland at the Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River National Park and the forested areas of El Nido.

This animal has no natural enemies. I just guess only humans has a bad attitude will be their enemy. Those are the people who will kill or catch this animals enable just to have a stuffs for themselves. We know that, we used to kill animals to be our food but have you ever given a thought that, what if these Durians will be all kill and used it for other stuffs. That is not a good idea! They are few Durians, then you will just eat it?

If you are a good citizen of the world. You will help our Mother Earth! Instead of putting animals in dangered. Lets take good care of them. So, the next generation can still see it.

-Tricia Mariel Lacson

Time Travel

TRAVELING IN THE PAST

"THE WORLD OF ICE AND WATER"

Have you ever wondered what it's like to see animals that lived before us? Isn't it amazing to see them in person and learn more about them? When I learned about extinction, I got so interested to know them all. The dinosaurs for example are one of the most famous extinct species known, and other early animals such as mammoths and giant sharks, animals with wierd body structures and physical appearances that we've never seen before in real life. What if they never got extinct? What would be the world right now if they're still alive? Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't that be dangerous? Well for me I am just so curious about these animals. I wanted to know them better, I wanted to know how they are different from the animals of today. As if I've always wanted to go back in time just to study them. Well I guess now's the opportunity. Because this article I made will take us to the past as we learn more about the Mammoths and Megalodons.

First, let's go to the time of the ice age when mammoths still lived. Mammoths are extinct genus of the elephant family. They lived 1.64 million to 10,000 years ago. They probably became extinct after the last ice age. It is very obvious that mammoths and modern elephants are different from each other. Mammoths have fur and a thick layer of fat to protect themselves from the cold of the ice age. The hair was long and shaggy and covered the entire body. According to my research, smaller mammoths are just as big as the modern elephants. It's quite sad to think that they're already extinct. They could still be existing until now. I believe that humans already lived during the times of the mammoths. How did they treat the mammoths when they're still here? Isn't it they used to hunt them? But even though humans do that, the extinction of the mammoths is still unknown.

Now let us go to the oceans. Before the mammoths, megalodons already lived in this world. They lived 25 to 1.6 million years ago. Megalodons are giant sharks. They are twice larger than the great white shark. They are second to the biggest predator at sea. The largest being is the sperm whale. According to my research, megalodons are larger and heavier than the T-Rex. That's one of the most interesting part of studying the megalodon. As we all know, sharks are smaller than whales. But did you know that this shark's favorite food are whales? They eat seals and other animals, but can you believe that their favorite food is a whale? Well you might say yes, and it is because of their enormous body. Their jaws were so large that this shark would be able to swallow a Rhinocerous whole. Just try to imagine if this shark still lived until now. A shark that's favorite food are whales. Wouldn't that be scary for us humans? They may even eat other sharks because they're so big. These sharks eat 2,500 pounds each day. They might be extinct already, but during their times, the Megalodon was the king of the ocean, just like the lion that is the king of the jungle. It is not fully understood why this giant killer became extinct, but we can all be glad it is. A day at the beach just wouldn't be what it is today if they're still here. Right?

-Marco Miguel P. Parel

Let's Love Them

For me the Animal Kingdom is one of the most diverse kingdoms we have. As far as I know, it is divided into 2 types, the vertebrates and the invertebrates.

The vertebrates and the invertebrates are many-celled animals and they have advantage over the other lower forms like the protists. Almost all members of the Animal Kingdom are invertebrates organisms that has no backbone. The animal kingdom is divided into 9 phylum namely, Porifera, Coelenterata, Plathyhelminthes, Annelida, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Nemathelminthes, Arthropoda and Chordata . The Phylum Chordata is the only group that includes humans and mammals. Most of the members in the phylum CHordata are Vertabrates, means Animals with Backbone. Hence the name Chordata, which comes from the greek word Chordae ( meaning string ) this refers to the notochord (present in a fetus) which the spinal chord and brain develops. The general characteristics of the vertebrates are the internal body framework (Endo skeleton) but aside from that the vertebrates have body that is consisted of a head, trunk, and tail (in some anilmals). The eyes, ears and nose are all located at the head they have cranial and spinal nerves, a spine that is composed of bony segments called vertebra, a closed circulatory system and many more.

The vertebrates are divided into 7 classes. First is the class Cyclostomata or Agnatha it includes jawless fish like lampreys then the class chondrichthyes fishes with cartilaginous skeleton and the osteichtheys the bony fishes, example are Bangus or Milkfish that is one of our primary food. Next is, class Amphibia that includes our favorite disected animal, the toad. The class Reptilia that includes turtle, alligators and the friendliest among them, the snakes. The Aves which includes the birds and lastly the class Mamalia. Mammals is divided into Monoteremes, the egg laying mammals like the duck billed platypus, the marsupials which carry their young in a pouch much like the Kangaroo and Lastly the Placentals. Where we humans are classified into, because we posses a special structure the Placenta, to nourish our unborn young for a long period of time before birth.

I am very thankful that I was born in Homo Sapiens Sapiens in Class Mammalia that is included in the Phylum Chordata that belongs in the Animal Kingdom. I now learned that each kingdom has its own distinct features. And I Love Animal Kingdom!

-Talitha Mary Ricafort

Wildlife Conservation

According to my research,wildlife conservation is the wise management of natural environments for the protection and benefit of plants and animals. Some species of plants and animals nowadays have become extint because of nature causes.However in modern times, the activities of Homo sapien sapiens and human population growth have increased the danger for wildlife. Because of that some species have declined greatly in numbers and others are now extint.
Through out history, wildlife had suffered much because of us, humans, and our activities such as kaingin, Forest fire, deforestation, and others. The invention of increasingly efficient weapons, such as the bow and arrow, up to the rifles, sutguns and bombs,enabled people to kill game with increasing ease. With the help of the advances, hunters have killed off same kind of animals.People also have cleared forests, drained swamps, and dammed rivers to make the agricultuer cleared and industry. This activities severely harmed and destroyed many habitats of animals. In addition, humans pollution of the environment has affected many wild species.
Gosh, I feel like we are now a destructive weapons to the wildlife...


-Ryan Charles A. Rebulanan