Endangered Species cont.
Cheetahs
Cheetahs are endangered animals. In Namibia farmers are kill cheetahs. Other people kill cheetahs for their fur. The cheetah is mostly hunted in Africa. A cheetah's shoulder length is about 30 inches long! It's lifespan is 10 to 20 years long if it is not hunted by man! Cheetahs weigh from 77 pounds to 132 pounds! Most cheetahs are found in grassy plains in Africa. Did you know that the cheetah’s diet is a smaller antelope? The cheetah’s predators are eagles, humans, hyenas, and lions. The cheetah can run over 60 miles per hour. .t.
Solutions for Cheetahs
Some ways to save the cheetah is people in Africa should try to stay warm without using the cheetah’s fur. Also there should be a law that tells people not to hunt cheetahs. If people don’t stop hunting the cheetah, it might become extinct some day.
Citations
Wielebnowski, Nadja. "Cheetah." World Book Student. 2009. [Worldbookonline.] 3 April 2009
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar108320>.
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Endangered Species
What are endangered species?
By Malia and help from Grace.
Endangered species are living things threatened with extinction, the dying off of their kind. Each specie of animal plays a big part in the delicate balance of the ecosystem, its relation to all the other things and the environment. The extinction of big groups of species makes survival of some living things, like humans hard. In the world, there are more than 1,000 animal species that are endangered. The animals just don’t go endangered. They go endangered from different ways. Here are 2 ways they become endangered.
Overexploitation
Overexploitation means hunting or using more animals than are born each year. Eventually the number gets dangerously low or they even die out. When several whale species were nearly extinct many nations including the United States agreed to stop hunting them. Other factors that cause endangerment of species are disease, pollution and limited distribution.
Habitat Destruction
Habitat destruction is when humans destroy animal homes.
We do this by cutting down trees, churning up the earth, and filling lakes and swamps with concrete. We do all these things and don’t even realize we are hurting the earth and all the creatures that live on that peace of earth. This process
changes the natural environment to meet the people’s desires, not the animals’ needs.
Here are Ways YOU Can
Help the Animals at home
• Do not waste the paper you use, it can be used again. Paper needs trees to be made and trees are animal homes.
• Recycle old bottles, cans, containers, and paper. (For more info about recycling see the report on the three r’s.)
• Don’t poach or hunt regularly because too much can hurt the animals and environment.
• Do not abuse plants like trees, grass, and do not pull worms out of the ground because that is their home.
• Don’t abuse animals because they help the environment and us! Any ways they did not abuse us!
Help them!
Endangered species citations
Nilsson, Greta. "Endangered species." World Book Student. 2009. [Place of access.] 30 April 2009
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar180830>. br />
Kurpis, Lauren. “Causes or Endangerment.” 26 March 2009.<http://www.endangeredspecie.com/>
Over Hunting
Hunting is a good sport, and it provides food for families. Most hunters are very responsible, but some hunters ignore laws and limits giving other hunters a bad name. Some of the hunters are not in this for sport or feeding their families, but for making money. These hunters don’t care about laws or limits or the animal they are hunting. Their irresponsible actions can lead to species becoming endangered.
Almost one out of every four mammal species is in terrible decline due to human hunting. Hunting is a threat to rhinos, elephants, jaguars, tapirs, primates and many more, which are also endangered.
From 1970 to 1992, black rhino numbers dropped down 96% because of poaching. Poaching is the illegal hunting, killing and capturing of animals. Poaching is also the failure to follow the hunting laws and limits.
One way poachers trap animals is by digging a pit. Poachers dig these giant holes to catch large animals such as elephants, zebras and buffaloes. The pits are usually across the path of animals. It is covered by grass or twigs to disguise it. Poachers usually chase these animals towards the pit. Obviously, the animals are much heavier than the grass, so they get trapped. Sometimes the hunters do not always get the game that they wanted and the animal dies for no good reason.
The animals that are hunted are usually hunted for their ivory, tusks and teeth. The poachers kill the whole animal just so they can take a small part of it and sell it to a dealer.
While the main thing poachers want is animals, people also get caught in their traps. The majority of the “victims” are women and children going out into the woods to go exploring or to do chores. Some of the traps can cause broken legs or even death.
Hunters who hunt to feed their families or for sport and follow the law are responsible citizens and responsible to the animals of the earth. Hunters who don’t obey the law are taking more than they can eat and endangering species.
10 Endangered Amphibians
• The Panamanian golden frog is a golden color with black spots; it may be extinct in the wild because of chytrid fungus a deadly disease that affects amphibian’s skin.
• The Wyoming toad is a grayish colored toad that was fine until the 1970s then do to an increase in predators, climate change and more, they can only live in captivity and the Mortenson lake nation wild life refuge in Wyoming.
• The Kihansi spry toad is a dwarf toad that lives in a fine
Mist made by water falls, it is threatened by water diversion for a hydroelectric company, and zoo breading could be there last hope.
• The Lehmann’s poison frogs can have red, yellow and orange stripes are critically endangered because of habitat loss, human settlement, pollution and lots more.
• The Interior robber frog is a brownish color it’s critically endangered because of a huge population decrees of more than 80% because of predators and amphibian chytrid which scientists think can lead to other worse diseases.
• The mountain chicken frog or giant ditch frog is brown and black, is critically endangered because of about 80% decline in the last 10 years because of a volcanic eruption in the 1990s.
• The Cowan’s mantella or harlequin mantilla is a small toxic black and orange frog, is critically endangered because of deforestation and population decline.
• The Corroboree frog is black and yellow it’s critically endangered and only has fragments of land to live on.
• The Table mountain ghost frog also known as Rose’s ghost frog is green, brown, black and yellow, it lives in streams and moist forests it’s threatened by new plants and people how visit the forest.
• The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world it is grayish pink and it can reach a length of 1.8m it’s critical its biggest threat is illegal hunting.
Citation http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment
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Over Hunting Citations
Citations
Peter, Magelah. EOEarth. 28 February 2009. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Poaching.>